Informational Text in K-3 Classrooms: Helping Children Read and Write

Educators know that providing a balance of genres in the classroom helps improve students' reading and writing abilities. Yet teachers continue to use mostly narrative texts in their classrooms, perhaps because they are unsure about how to choose and use other appropriate texts. Information Text in K-3 Classrooms: Helping Children Read and Write, by Sharon Benge Kletzien and Mariam Jean Dreher, provides increasing evidence that young children benefit when teachers include informational text in their curricula and shows how to easily incorporate informational texts into teaching.