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Nonfiction Is Core

Scholastic’s products and resources—trusted by educators and parents for more than 90 years— are integral in helping students, librarians, and teachers meet their common core teaching and learning goals .

Today’s students are being asked to read more informational text than ever before . To meet the Common Core State Standards, half of the reading materials should be nonfiction even at the youngest grades .

By their very nonfiction nature, Scholastic Library Publishing books and digital resources offer students authentic text on leveled, curriculum-driven content .

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1. Relevant academic and domain-specific words and phrases are used in context to assist students in determining their meaning .

2. These well-organized books make it easy for students to refer explicitly to the text when demonstrating an understanding of it .

3. Challenging texts require students to read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension .

4. Maps, photos, and diagrams require students to use information gathered from illustrations to gain a comprehensive understanding of the text .

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5. True Books examine topics from various aspects that make them ideal for short research projects .

6. Each text contains a wealth of information that makes it an excellent springboard into writing informative/explanatory essays that fully examine a topic .

Reading:

1. Each text’s clear structure allows students to analyze how specific sentences, paragraphs, and portions of text relate to each other and the whole .

2. Maps, photos, and diagrams require student to integrate visual information to gain a comprehensive understanding of the text .

WRiting:

3. Students can use the wealth of facts, quotations, and concrete details to write clear informative/explanatory essays .

4. With more than one Enchantment of the World book, students will be able to draw from multiple reliable sources for short research projects .

5. To effectively explain the text, students will have to use precise language and the domain-specific vocabulary they learned from the book .

Reading:

1. With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text .

2. Distinguish between information provided by pictures or illustrations and information provided by words in a text .

Reading Foundational skills:

3. Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print .

4. Apply phonics and word analysis skills to decode grade-appropriate words .

WRiting:

5. Write informative, explanatory texts with a specific topic, supporting facts, and a sense of closure .

6. Participate in shared research and writing projects in which students integrate information from various sources .

Common Core Standard Scholastic Library Publishing Solution

Increased focus on informational text More than 1,200 nonfiction titles

Able to read increasingly difficult textsBooks on similar topics at various levels as children

grow their knowledge and literacy skills

Use various text features to locate key facts or information in a text

Table of contents, chapters, boldface words, sidebars, timelines, and glossaries included in most books

Acquire vocabulary of domain-specific words Glossaries serve as an excellent resource for domain- specific words and building in-context vocabulary

Integrate knowledge and ideaswww.factsfornow.scholastic.com is an exciting extended

learning website that allows learners to access more information and do further research

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Scholastic Library Publishing Common Core FeaturesScholastic Library Publishing Common Core Features Grades 5–9

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To meet the Common Core State Standards, as students rise through the grades, they are expected to be able to use the reading skills they build to understand more complex informational texts . Text complexity includes not only reading level, but also levels of meaning, text organization, text features, and knowledge demands placed upon the reader . All Scholastic Library Publishing titles have Lexile® levels, and feature appropriate grade-level complexity .

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