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Teach the skills for reading nonfiction with a critical eye
Discover the most effective way to develop more informed readers, and teach students how to clearly distinguish fact from interpretation and opinion.
Through direct instruction, models, exercises, and writing assignments, Reading and Analyzing Nonfiction: Slant, Spin, and Bias will help you teach students how to recognize an author’s biases and avoid being swayed by them.
This comprehensive book includes both historically significant texts like the Declaration of Independence and contemporary pieces like Pulitzer Prize-winning editorials.
Perfect for AP Language and Composition* classes, Reading and Analyzing Nonfiction is also great for general literature courses—even writing courses—to give your students models to analyze and follow.
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Reading and Analyzing Nonfiction
GRADES 9–12
30 Copies + Teacher's Edition
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What are the primary purposes of Reading and Analyzing Nonfiction?
This book instructs students in the skillful reading of nonfiction through examples of high-quality nonfiction works. Students will learn to analyze rhetorical devices and logical fallacies, elements a reader must know to prevent being unduly convinced, manipulated, or misled.
What types of nonfiction are included in this book?
Reading and Analyzing Nonfiction includes all traditional print genres: editorials, reviews, speeches, and essays. It also includes online media like blog posts. The book includes selections by famous authors and figures like Mary Shelley, Martin Luther King Jr., and Bruce Catton, to name a few.
Who would benefit the most from this book?
Reading and Analyzing Nonfiction is intended for high school students, primarily those in grades 10–12. The book is especially useful for AP Language and Composition courses, but the selections and accompanying notes and instructional material are appropriate for all levels of students.
What kind of instructional content is in the book?
There are exercises that help students identify and analyze rhetorical devices, logical fallacies, and devices of propaganda. Exercises also allow students to practice distinguishing fact from opinion.
In addition, students have the opportunity to write responses analyzing and interpreting some of the reading selections.
How is the book different from other nonfiction collections or practice programs?
While there are other collections of nonfiction available, Reading and Analyzing Nonfiction contains not only traditional nonfiction forms, but contemporary ones, too. Other collections merely present nonfiction selections. Reading and Analyzing Nonfiction provides active instruction in how to approach nonfiction from an analytical lens.
Take a look at the science of reading and explore three core concepts behind this approach to reading instruction that focuses on phonics and the cognitive processes behind reading.
Some rhetorical devices are everywhere you look—metaphor and simile come to mind—and you know them when you see them. Others are less well known but just as powerful and fun to use. Here are our top 5 rhetorical devices that aren’t household names (but should be).
With so much content vying for their attention, it’s important that students learn how to make sense of it all. What kind of messages are being conveyed? How can they tell if what they’re seeing and hearing is fact or fiction? That’s where media literacy comes in.
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