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careful reading can advance great writing.
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Common Core dictates that by fourth grade, public school students devote half of their reading time in class to historical documents, scientific tracts, maps and other “informational texts” — like recipes and train schedules
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What schools really need isn’t more nonfiction but better nonfiction,
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Most students could use greater familiarity with what newspaper, magazine and book editors call “narrative nonfiction”: writing that tells a factual story, sometimes even a personal one, but also makes an argument and conveys information in vivid, effective ways.
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Web sites, which have begun providing online lesson plans using articles for younger readers, and on ProPublica.org.
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