Students have been reading various texts during our reader's workshop and building their reading stamina. They've been leaving tracks of their thinking on post-its and sharing their thinking about reading with others. We explored some strategies readers use when writing about their reading to help further develop ideas about the text.
In our nonfiction unit, students have been using expository text structure to understand and retain the information in a text. We identified different ways that nonfiction text can be organized, and read each text with the question, "What is the author trying to teach me?" in mind. Students have been identifying the main ideas and the supporting details in a text, and they've been teaching others about new learning.
Students will have the opportunity to apply all that they know about nonfiction text when researching a topic of interest. They'll learn alongside "fellow researchers" and collect facts to develop bigger ideas about a topic. While researching, they'll also critique texts with analytical lenses and notice how authors make us feel about a subject.
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