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Learning to Read and Reading to Learn: Informational Series Books
Author(s) -
Kurkjian Catherine,
Livingston Nancy
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
the reading teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.642
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1936-2714
pISSN - 0034-0561
DOI - 10.1598/rt.58.6.9
Subject(s) - reading (process) , literacy , learning to read , psychology , information literacy , mathematics education , pedagogy , linguistics , philosophy
This article presents well‐written and visually exciting informational series books on a range of topics. As children progress through a series, the predictability of the external and the internal characteristics allows them to learn to negotiate various aspects of nonfiction while delighting in the content and deepening conceptual understanding. After learning how to navigate one book within a collection, readers have a chance to deepen their understanding of concepts as they move on to the other books in the series. Comments and contributions from authors Brian B. Cleary and Judith Herbst also appear. Informational literacy is so crucial to success in American higher education, citizenship, and work that our current era is widely known as the “information age.”Duke, 2004