4. In the reading of historical fiction, were students
grouped by ability?
The books were all pretty much targeted at the grade level I was
teaching. Where the students had the opportunity to expand was in
the nonfiction reference books they accessed. And students who had
difficulty in reading may have worked with a parent, or myself,
or someone else in reading through the novels. Through their literature
groups they were communicating. It was important that we all read
the same novels because then we all had the same base of information
to discuss.
