Why We Love Fiction

Some parents ask about the value of their children reading fiction. While reading nonfiction such as biographies, history, nature, and science is important, we feel strongly that fiction offers experiences students need for a complete education. Truly, students’ minds require fiction.

Entire new worlds—whether accurate historical settings or fantasy realms, futuristic societies or suspenseful mysteries—await students within the many types of fiction we make available.

Most importantly, the universal themes in fiction exist and prevail because they are shared by all people. Life lessons, moral integrity, and struggles for equality appear in the plots and characters of the best books. These characters find courage, experience loss, find devotion, experience empathy, or realize identity in ways that readers will remember. These powerful stories stay with us, affect our understanding of other people and ourselves.

This is why SpiderSmart promotes the reading and understanding of fiction.

Your SpiderSmart Team Cares!