Thanks for a fun summer in Reading Workshop 5! Keep on reading!
After reading the script, The Book That Saved The Earth, students chose roles, rehearsed, and performed for the class. This week, students are learning to use non-fiction tools to gain further information. Using a variety of non-fiction texts and articles, students identified the visual elements of non-fiction organization, including:
We practiced our Visual Thinking Strategies by looking at the cover of the Read Aloud book, A Tangle of Knots. Students practiced identifying what they saw in the illustration and presenting visual clues to support their theories. Based on these findings, students posed questions about the book.
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