Nonfiction Text Study

Today we began our study of nonfiction text to prepare us for report writing. We will be looking at nonfiction books both during Readers' and Writers' Workshop. The students learned that we don't read these books like our regular fiction books. They do not contain narrative story elements such as characters and problems. We learned that often these nonfiction texts contain a table of contents, photographs, captions, diagrams, headings and an index. We then explored some books with a partner and used sticky notes to mark these features when we found them. The students will also be browsing nonfiction books during the worktime of Readers' Workshop.