Engaging Students with Expository Books through Interactive Read‐Alouds.
Many elementary teachers shy away from using expository literature for interactive read‐alouds in their classrooms, preferring and privileging narrative texts over this type of nonfiction. This article first shares the complementary benefits of moving beyond fiction and narrative nonfiction in educa...
| Published in: | Reading Teacher Vol. 77; no. 1; pp. 6 - 16 |
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