The time has come...to finally start learning about Nonfiction Text. I love when we work on our Nonfiction unit in our Reading Workshop. It is so fun to see all of the light bulbs turning on in the children's heads as they learn something new!!! (They secretly think that we are doing "big kid" work.) We started off by introducing the nonfiction text features. So far, we have learned about the Table of Contents, Photographs, Picture Captions, Index, Glossary, Tables, Graphs, Charts, Labels, Maps, & Diagrams. We also learned our "Nonfiction Song." Ask your child to sing it to you...I know they will be excited to share it with someone...especially the last line of the song. :) We discussed reading targets (look in the Table of Contents to see what you would like to learn more about, and go straight to that page number), and we talked about different materials that are considered to be Nonfiction, like: Dictionary, Cookbook, Biography, Newspapers, (some) Magazines, etc.
Check out some pictures of our class searching through the nonfiction baskets to find the Table of Contents, a Photograph, and a Picture Caption. (They tabbed their place with a post-it sticky flag.)
Russell found all 3 in this book.
Drake found a few in this one.
Joe found a photograph.
Elijah found his, so now he is enjoying his nonfiction book.
Emma is on the search.
I love how Destiny P.'s facially expression shows that she is really into this book! :)
Group 3 is exploring their nonfiction basket.
Mari has her sticky tab ready to put it on one of the text features. (I see a Glossary and an Index).
Destiny V. has her eye on a life cycle.
Sophia found some photographs.
Way to go on your nonfiction text feature findings...Y'all did GREAT!!! :)
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