Journal – YC: Young Children; Nov 2011, Vol 66 Issue 6. P100
Title – Fiction vs. Informational Texts Which Will Kindergartners Choose?
Author – Marlene Ponte Correia

This article discusses what informational text is and how it supports children’s overall literacy development. Informational text or non-fiction includes but is not limited to textbooks, magazines, directions, etc. Informational text is written and read to answer questions and to learn something new. Informational text can be intimidating to adults let alone small children so it is understandable that some teachers may be intimidated introducing non-fiction to their early learners. There is an assumption that children will understand and make sense of a story that is fiction before they will be able to comprehend text that is a nont-fiction text (Bortnem). Some teachers may feel the text is too complicated, the vocabulary is too topic specific, there is not enough age appropriate material and many may such as storybooks, fairytales, etc.

The author like many teachers was convinced that kindergartners preferred fiction, even though much of the research cited children's preferences for the content of informational books over narrative text. The author decides to investigate the children's book preferences through a study to determine if her perception that they preferred fiction was accurate. The core of the article centers on her study that was done among a class of kindergarteners. The study was done to determine whether kindergarten students would choose fiction or informational texts more often. The study was done over a period of 19 weeks. The study concluded that the kindergarteners would pick informational texts just as often, or even more often, than fiction books. The teacher found that students liked to learn about things they found interesting. The children chose nonfiction or