Well, we have had 2 snow days and 2- 2 hour delays, so we are s-l-o-w-l-y getting through our nonfiction writing unit. Since we just finished our
penguin unit the class had a pretty good understanding of nonfiction books and the text features. But we took a few days to read and review those features with an anchor chart… I had them pick cards with examples and match them to the text features.
Then they got to pick an animal to research. I narrowed the animal choices down to dolphins, great white sharks, american alligators, and cheetahs. (I just happen to have a lot of books about these animals and I made some mini books for each student to have). They get to underline and highlight important facts in these mini books, while taking notes in their note-taking packets. They look so cute and grown up highlighting and note-taking!!! I love it!
If the weather cooperates and we ever get a full school day, we will start revising our books by creating captions, glueing in photos, changing our headings, creating diagrams and writing a table of contents.
If you are interested in my
Non-Fiction Writing Unit, check it out on TPT! It has very detailed daily mini lessons, anchor chart suggestions, minibooks, a notetaking packet, posters, templates, diagrams…. the list goes on!
Here is a text-feature poster freebie… I plan to send one home with each student so they can refer to it when reading nonfiction books.