It’s not exactly news: nonfiction writing can be less than thrilling for many learners. But in Jade Band’s recent investigative journalism unit, these middle-school learners discovered new ways to deeply invest in finding and telling the true stories lying hidden all around them.
Long-form journalistic writing, a type of narrative nonfiction, is a tricky genre. To pull off an article of the sort one might read in The Atlantic, learners had to draw on and synthesize skills from many genres they’d practiced previously…
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