Nonfiction Learning

Since returning from our December break, students in our class have been learning lots about reading and writing nonfiction! We began by discussing the differences between fiction and nonfiction, reviewing examples from both genres. Students are now well into reading nonfiction books, learning how we can read informational texts differently from narrative texts, and learning about text features (such as the table of contents, glossary, index, captions, labels, headings, text boxes, and more) and how we can use them to help us read informational texts. The children in our class have begun applying their learning about reading informational texts to writing informational texts. They are writing teaching books, or informational texts, on topics they know all about! These are booklets with many pages, full of lots of detail, explaining topics they feel that they are experts in. Their books range from those about specific animals, to sports, to video games, to favorite superheroes. Today students began practicing writing with their readers in mind, anticipating the types of questions a reader would ask about their book topic, and writing to provide all of the information a reader might want to know! Below are a few photos of students reading and writing nonfiction today!

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