Throughout May, I’ll be sharing ideas and activities from educators who are working to
increase their students’ access to a wide range of high-quality nonfiction
books. You can scroll down to for last week’s suggestions.

Here are three
ideas to help students understand the wide world of nonfiction and all it has to
offer. Immersing kids in books allows them see for themselves what various
categories of nonfiction have in common and how they’re different.

Investigating
Nonfiction Like Detectives by D’Anne Dwight Mosby