"It's Monday...What Are You Reading?"

I hope everyone was safe on their commute this morning and enjoyed 90 extra minutes...perhaps, to read?!?!?  Today during Reader's Workshop, we started our mini author study of Gail Gibbons with a focus on understanding text features.  We are learning how and why authors include text features.  More importantly, we are learning how text features help us to better understand the text.  At Writer's Workshop, we will be integrating text features into our non-fiction information books, too!  Therefore, it is very important that we have a deep understanding of text features!   Today, in Owl, we noticed and discussed text features that included: diagrams, labels, captions, cut-aways, comparisons, definitions, and illustrations.