http://blogs.slj.com/nonfictionmatters/2012/05/16/cc-change-and-challenge/ A School Library Journal Blog Sun, 05 Aug 2012 22:26:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://blogs.slj.com/nonfictionmatters/2012/05/16/cc-change-and-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-63253 Myra Zarnowski Wed, 16 May 2012 12:33:35 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/nonfictionmatters/?p=1441#comment-63253 Availability of NF is a major problem. Yesterday, I spent the day at a local elementary school where I am working on a grant funded project using NF science books. The teachers tell me that their primary problem is lack of material. They simply don't have the books and other simple materials like journals that the need. When our grant provided them with books --some classroom sets and a classroom library for independent reading--they made spectacular use of it. They children read, wrote, did projects, made charts, discussed ideas and evidence--everything they should be doing to use language to learn. Again and again they talked about how having quality books and materials made THE difference. Availability of NF is a major problem. Yesterday, I spent the day at a local elementary school where I am working on a grant funded project using NF science books. The teachers tell me that their primary problem is lack of material. They simply don’t have the books and other simple materials like journals that the need. When our grant provided them with books –some classroom sets and a classroom library for independent reading–they made spectacular use of it. They children read, wrote, did projects, made charts, discussed ideas and evidence–everything they should be doing to use language to learn. Again and again they talked about how having quality books and materials made THE difference.

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