What I mean by informational text is books or articles about real life things, not stories. It can range from being about animals to regions to historical events and really anything else. This brings me to the question; should children read more informational text? I think so; I personally love having a bunch of knowledge. Watching the History and Discovery channels is very fun to me. I like to learn about things that I wouldn’t normally encounter in school and I did this when I was younger too. Do other kids enjoy this though?
Informational text can be utilized to teach kids about things that they may be interested in. Exposure is definitely the key to helping a student to develop their interest and possibly help them realize what they would like to do with their lives and informational text could be a form of this exposure. A problem with informational text though, is that it can be so dry that it won’t grab the attention of a young person. Should informational text be rewritten so it is more interesting to read or is there informational text out now that is very well written and will interest kids more? The reason I ask this is because any informational text I read when I was younger was always extremely boring and hard to concentrate on because of its lack of…well I don’t know what it was lacking, but it was definitely something.
