With the Common Core Standards came an increased focus on reading informational texts, starting with kindergarten. But integrating informational texts isn’t as simple as having students read a couple ...

In an English/language arts classroom in Iowa, 10th graders are analyzing the rhetoric in books about computer geeks, fast food, teenage marketing, the working poor, chocolate-making, and ...

The newest buzzword in education is "informational text"-which includes nonfiction and expository texts. State mandated tests are heavily weighted toward nonfiction. This audio program shows how to ...

Discourse & Society, Vol. 28, No. 1 (January 2017), pp. 81-103 (23 pages) Research has shown that immigrants tend to be negatively constructed in the discourse of the media. In the context of the ...