We are diving into non-fiction books to become smarter about our world and the things in it that they are curious about.
We read the books Eye to Eye, Bone by Bone, and Who lives here?, taking the whole week to read and learn about animals and their parts.
We read the books Eye to Eye, Bone by Bone, and Who lives here?, taking the whole week to read and learn about animals and their parts.
From now until the end of the year, we will be reading, thinking and learning about animals.Through non-fiction books, we are teaching students how to use comprehension strategies to read and learn as they encounter information and ideas in non-fiction texts. These non-fiction reading strategies are designed to create life-long learners who read actively and independently across the curriculum, who engage their minds and who understand what they read. We can even "read" non-fiction books without being able to read the text. There is so much to learn just by looking at the pictures! The early stages of our non-fiction exploration are setting the stage for student research. We are curious and wonder a whole awful lot about the world around us. Non-fiction books can be a tool for us to start discovering the answers to some of our questions. We use non-fiction text features to help us find the information we need from a book and decide if that information answers our question or sparks new questions. I will be modeling this process of having a question and looking for the answer in a non-fiction book for the next few weeks with the whole class and small groups of kids, preparing kids to do this process independently with an African Animal. |