Most reading material can be divided into fiction and non-fiction. Many people explain the difference bewteen the two as the difference between "true" or "not true", but that misses the point.
The point of reading fiction is to develop emotional intelligence by relating to the characters and the situation.
The point of reading non-fiction is to develop critical thinking skills to separate truth from, well, b.s. But it doesn't stop there, because even factually correct non-fiction can further be subdivided into objective fact and opinion. And of course, as we know, there is no such thing as "objective fact": everybody has points of view, if not outright biases, and we have to be able to suss them out in order to have opinions of our own. Sometimes the only difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is who is writing the story.
And that's why we have to teach our kids to read.
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