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

Happy Monday!  Today we continued our sea turtle study with our final reading and note taking assignment.  Students worked in book clubs to read and notice author's structure or craft, tell about their new learning, and draw and describe a text feature on their final text.  Tomorrow we will review the texts, particularly One Tiny Turtle, which integrates beautiful craft throughout the story of a turtle.  Students will compare and contrast how the author of this book wrote differently from the others, which are more traditional informational texts.  Then, finally, we move on to our Mystery unit at the end of the week!  

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!  As we start the new year, we are diving right in to working hard with our reading!  This week, we are reviewing our non-fiction reading skills and strategies from before break with a study of sea turtles.  Students will read four different texts and will integrate their learning across texts on the same topic.  Students will apply their learning of text features, text structure, and author's craft to these different texts.  Today, we started with Gail Gibbons book Sea Turtles.  Students will read and take notes on the unique features of these non-fiction texts.  Another favorite book of mine that we will read is One Tiny Turtle by Nicola Davies.  Next week, we return to fiction reading with a Mystery genre study!