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What's up with nonfiction?March 28, 2007Sue Shaver, one of our regular reviewers, writes that the use of nonfiction has declined in her library: "Personally, I am finding more and more that my high school students are not as curious about various topics as they used to be. There will be an occasional resurgence in interest for WWII at the junior high level, but even interest in non-fiction sports titles has fallen off. Whether this is just a reflection of our area [Nebraska] or a trend everywhere in schools, I’m interested in knowing....Students at the junior high level continue to read some non-fiction on their own and still lots of fiction, with high school students checking out fiction for our sustained silent reading school-wide program. Non-fiction is used only for research and then it seems teachers don’t even do as much of that as they used to."
Posted by Brian Kenney on March 28, 2007 | Comments (1)
April 3, 2007
In response to: What's up with nonfiction? Cata commented: We are experieincing the same phenomena.
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