Shannon and Mary talk with Melissa Taylor from ImaginationSoup.net about the importance of nonfiction texts in a student's reading diet. They chat about the flexible comprehension strategies students need to organize the information gathered from nonfiction and text features and structures that are specific to nonfiction texts. Listeners should walk away inspired to put more NF texts in their readers hands.
RESOURCES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE:
- Imagination Soup
- Melissa's Article: Reading Nonfiction Prepares Kids for Success
- Comprehension Strategies
- types of NF texts
- CBS Sunday Morning-Finland schools Media Literacy story
- Refutational Texts
- Melissa on IG
- Melissa on FB
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