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Reading Nonfiction: Challenge And Change

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If you’ve been eagerly anticipating Kylene Beers and Bob Probst's nonfiction follow-up to Notice & Note, the wait is overReading Nonfiction: Notice & Note Stances, Signposts, and Strategies is out now! In today's blog, Bob and Kylene discuss how successful nonfiction should challenge and/or change your held beliefs.

Nonfiction ought to offer the reader something new. It ought to confirm a belief or challenge a belief. Challenge and change are so integral to the work of nonfiction that Kylene and Bob considered calling their book Challenge & Change. Watch the video below.

 
 
 
 
 
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Wistia video thumbnail - Challenge and change: The goal of nonfiction reading

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Visit the official Reading Nonfiction page for more information.

This month is Nonfiction November! Celebrate by using the hashtag #NonficNov and by visiting our page for the Notice & Note Student Bookmarks.

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Kylene Beers and Bob Probst have helped thousands of teachers with strategies for the close reading of fiction in Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading. And now, coming this autumn, the authors return with Reading Nonfiction: Notice and Note Stances, Signposts and Strategies.

Visit the Reading Nonfiction page.

Topics: Video, Defining Nonfiction, Education, Guided Reading, Literature, Notice and Note, Reading, Reading Nonfiction, Technology, Text Features, Writing, Assessment, Bob Probst, Collaboration, Comprehension, Conferring, Differentiated Instruction, Digital Campus, Extreme and Absolute Language, Grammar, Intervention, Kylene Beers, Language Arts, Nonfiction, #RdngNF, Signposts, Stances, Student Texts

Date Published: 11/10/15

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