y son came back from school a couple of weeks ago and told me that his teacher had said that “nonfiction was better than fiction,” because it talked about “real things,” and was therefore, presumably, more instructive.
Maybe I’m making too much of a second-hand comment, but I have to confess that my blood boiled for a moment. It sounded like something straight out of Common Core, which puts an emphasis on “informational texts” over storytelling, especially as students get older. Continue Reading →