Coby Thornton's Response to the Second Chapter of Sharon Taberski's book On Solid Ground

In the second chapter of her book, On Solid Ground, Sharon Taberski mentions that we should give young children more genres than fiction to read because most of the things that adults read are non-fiction. She explains that fictions tell a story and the story has to be read from cover to cover. On the other hand non-fictions do not have to be read cover to cover and readers are allowed to take only what they need. Taberski states that it is okay to let a child read a fiction book even though they cannot finish the whole thing. Not being able to read that book in its entirety will give them a goal to work towards.

I never thought of the things that Taberski brought up but what she says makes sense. In the Kindergarten class that I observe at I realized that there are no non-fiction books, that I have seen, for the children to read. It would be nice for Kindergarteners to have short and simple non-fiction books at their disposal. This gives me the desire to write some non-fiction books that will be aimed specifically at Kindergarteners. On the otherhand I know that I should go out and look for some non-fiction Kindergarten level books but writing sounds like much more fun.