Topic: Reading Aloud

10-second review: What kinds of books are not usually read aloud? Notable lack of nonfiction read-alouds in middle school.

Source: LK Albright & M Arial. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy (April 2005), 587. The secondary school journal of the International Reading Association (IRA).

Comment: The number of nonfiction books available in Young Adult literature is astounding, on almost any topic you can imagine, in science, biography, history, etc. If a topic is too complicated in adult texts, try reading Young Adult nonfiction on the same topic. RayS.