Shared Reading

Nonfiction ch. 9

In class discussion we talk about the elements Nonfiction. Nonfiction books contain factual information and some filled with photographs that are meaningful to the story. A factor in the genre is finding about the author within the book jacket, point of view and the research process within a page that is dedicated to the author. Non-fiction is used to primarily for children as a source for research. I have learned quite a bit about nonfiction due to my research with another course that requires students to use 20 nonfiction books. It was hard at first because a fiction book can have qualities of facts in it. One of the books that I had was the “Magic School Bus” which taught about a factual lesson eventhough there really isn’t flying bus in time.

Meeting of the Minds

Within the group in class my group did meeting of the minds. We each brought a nonfiction series from the same author; the biographies were Helen Keller and three other historical characters. We each came prepared and spoke in the characters viewpoint. We discussed things we didn't know about the characters. We also talked about ways for students to use this as a teaching tool for teaching other students. I have seen the "wax museum" display were the students are in a display box and they are in full character and speaking in first person. I think is great for students to get to know their charcter and other historical figures. A great project!

Carnegie Read aloud

Today in class we watch a teacher on the Carnegie website have a read aloud as a whole group. She engage the students with text to text connections. With the samiliar authors and asked children what kind of text to text connections did they make. She then had the students turn to a partner and discuss for about a minute about any connections they have made. Text to text connections is great way in having students have familiar storylines and have knowledge. Read alouds are very important for all grade levels. In chapter 10 read alouds discuss that they should be interesting to the reader. Ms. Pickett discusses the classics and reading different versions of Shakespears, "Romeo Juliet and Hamlet."