We are now into our second trimester of first grade and we are making a shift from studying fiction to studying nonfiction during Readers' Workshop and Writers's Workshop. I always find that first graders are very excited about nonfiction, especially when the texts are about animals, and it is always very fun when we dive into this bend of our instruction. This week we have been reading and writing nonfiction and exploring the differences between nonfiction and fiction.
As a new shift in instruction (as we work to align instruction with the Common Core State Standards) students are now really being asked to find text based evidence to support their thinking as well as to do research and use outside sources of information to support their writing. Today our class started talking about doing research by using nonfiction books and the kid friendly google search engine Kidrex.org to look up information to use in our nonfiction writing. We also started practicing putting the information we found into our own words. Students in our class had a lot of fun looking up facts about the nonfiction topics they had chosen to write about today! Below are a few photos of them working today.
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