Our group agreements
Finding facts and answering our questions about animals!
After setting the expectations, students will start generating questions they want to know about their animals and then work together to research these questions and write fact drafts for their books. Once groups have generated lots of fact page drafts and feel like experts, they will sort these facts into chapters. When we have all of the pages drafted, we will edit them for readability, marking them up with purple pens and making them sloppy before using them to write our final drafts and publish our books. This editing process will be an important step in creating our books. If we want other people to learn from our books, they have to be able to read our writing. This "research process" is something that we will keep going back to. Each group will be working at their own pace and will be at different points during the process from week to week. Such a fun and chaotic time that is full of great learning! |