ABSTRACT
Like many educators, the author mistakenly believed that students prefer fiction. Instead, they receive the unfortunate label "reluctant reader". Research shows that expository nonfiction motivates these students, and they're significantly more likely to thrive as readers if they have access to expository nonfiction on topics of personal interest. The author discusses some of the ways integrating the four kinds of expository nonfiction active nonfiction, browseable nonfiction, traditional nonfiction, and expository literature into your ELA and content-area lessons can improve the literacy skills of your entire class. The child most likely built knowledge over time by interacting with the information in a variety of ways viewing dinosaur videos, studying and drawing pictures of dinosaurs, talking incessantly about dinosaurs to anyone who would listen, and, undoubtedly, by reading dozens of expository nonfiction children's books about dinosaurs.
