What do kids like to read when given the chance to choose their own books? That’s the subject of this post by three award-winning nonfiction authors — Cynthia Levinson, Melissa Stewart and ...

Everyone hopes the new Common Core standards will get our students out of a reading slump. But the standards demand for more non-fiction reading is being resisted by English teachers.

Often when selecting a read-aloud book for young children, we tend to reach for fiction. Yet, as adults, most of our reading is nonfiction: manuals, newspapers, maps and the Internet. Research stud… ...