CC Improves High School English Curriculum - [Good for Middle School]

Although this article focuses on English classes in high school, the basic premise is applicable to most high school content subjects.  This is one teacher's account of how her classes have improved using fiction and non-fiction to bring the subject matter to life.  Students became more engaged and made connections across a variety of literary genere that she would have not thought possible without non-fiction.  I love her ending statements which are true also for the lower grades.

"Every time we turn on a television or a radio, every time we sit in front of a computer or open a book, we become consumers of the English language. We feast on words every day: fiction and nonfiction, accurate and misleading. The job of teachers is to guide students to be shrewd consumers of all types of language."

 A Happy Tale From a Common-Core Classroom.  Lyn Cannaday.  2.27.13.  Education Week - Premium Article.
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Tell us how you are able to combine both in your Title I classes.