The common standards expect students to become adept at reading informational text, a shift in focus that many English/language arts teachers fear might diminish the time-honored place of literature ...

Remedial Reading and Language Arts – Students will recognize informational text structures and differentiate authors’ purposes. Students will apply this knowledge by writing five different kinds of ...

To be fair, the question that we started with poses a false dichotomy. Both of us, and probably you, read all kinds of texts over the course of any month. It is hard to imagine navigating the modern ...

Think about what you’ve read recently. Do you generally read to learn about something or to be entertained? What kind of reading materials do you have on your electronic reader? What paperbacks do you ...