Providing opportunities to read both narrative and informational texts helps students develop what?

• A. Content knowledge and comprehension across genres
• B. Only vocabulary
• C. Spelling accuracy
• D. Grammar usage only

Answer: (A)

Reading both narrative and informational texts builds content knowledge and strengthens comprehension across genres. When students read narratives, they follow plots, meet characters, and explore themes, which helps them remember ideas and predict what might come next. Informational texts teach facts, explanations, and processes, and they often use headings, diagrams, and other features that show how information is organized. Exposure to both types expands students’ background knowledge in many subjects and gives them flexible strategies for understanding different text structures. This combined practice makes it easier to make sense of new material, draw connections, and transfer comprehension skills from one type of text to another. While vocabulary, spelling, and grammar can improve as a result, the broad benefit described here is enhanced content knowledge and understanding across genres.