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Free Article - Importance of Nonfiction Magazines

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"A wide variety of magazines can be the perfect complement to the other reading material you make available to children and can help them become enthusiastic, capable readers and better informed people." - EDPRESS Magazines for Kids and Teens

Cobblestone Publishing's nonfiction magazines provide a colorful, accessible, and inviting reading environment for students. Our top quality nonfiction magazines:
  • Provide students with new and interesting reading material on a regular basis
  • Motivate students to read for information
  • Enrich curriculum-mandated lessons with short, attention-grabbing articles, illustrations, and activities
  • Encourage the reading habit through their visual and topical appeal, helping students become strategic, active, lifelong readers of expository text
  • Make reading and learning fun!

"To address children's nonfiction needs fully, teachers must do more than just expose them to nonfiction. Motivating children to read more nonfiction is an important first step." - Mariam Jean Dreher, University of Maryland in The Reading Teacher (12/98)

Here are some specific ideas on how to motivate your students to use Cobblestone magazines.
  • Encourage students to participate in contests and activities.
  • English Language Arts teachers: get your students published! Upcoming themes are provided for the entire school year; students could be encouraged to submit appropriate short essays, poems, and art that relate to a future theme. Each month our editors pick short essays and poems that tie in with the topic. Offer special credits when appropriate.
  • Use magazines to foster skills students will need in the work place. Examples: After reading an issue, ask students to write a letter to the editor with their assessment of the issue or ask students to read an article and tell another student, or the class, what they have learned. Reconstructing the story is excellent practice for reporting information skills that students will use in the workplace.
  • Make magazines readily accessible in the library or classroom. Display issues with other thematic materials. Provide magazines for silent reading and homework research.
  • Encourage parents to have magazines in the home.
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