Everyone has a story to tell. What is yours?
In the past two weeks we added to our Nonfiction Text Features hunt by identifying captions, labels, tables, and graphs in our texts. Here is a current pic of our anchor chart with all of the updated features: Here’s a close-up of the pages attached to the chart. Each of these pages matches the ones the kids are putting into… Read More
We continue to learn about the features of nonfiction text. Last week we added bold and italic print to our list of features we can identify: Luckily, students had some idea of what these features were all about. They wanted to quickly point out that these features can be found in fictional text, too. So we have also been working… Read More
We dove into our study of nonfiction text features over the last two weeks. We started with a sorting activity for fiction and nonfiction text features. The students had a few misconceptions, but we were able to clear those up. Next up was our first target: explaining the differences between photographs and illustrations. After showing various pictures from text, students… Read More
Harry has been the other man in my life this summer. I have been busy with my nose in a Horrible Harry book off and on for a few weeks now. Don’t get me wrong, I am also reading for professional development (Building Mathematical Comprehension) and pleasure (just finished Gone Girl – outstanding read, by the way). Some days after… Read More
Have you seen this book? I found a copy of the book online written as a poem. We have been using it for some choral reading and fluency practice. At first, I simply told my students that the poem was a picture book, but I wasn’t going to show it to them. I wanted them to use their schema about penguins and think about… Read More
