Students receive a copy of a Scholastic book order pamphet. With a partner (or their little buddy), students discuss each book, and decide whether it is fiction or non-fiction and how they know. Students then cut out the book picture and glue it onto a chart - one side being labeled fiction, the other non-fiction. My students will be a big help in the cutting and gluing department, and I hope they will be able to coach their little buddy in deciding which category each book belongs in.
This idea would fit into the lessons for teaching the Reading Power
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This sounds like a great idea! I just read your post on lit circles, as well, and agree - it is such an important piece of reading workshop. We're on our third lit circle cycle of the year - it's always such a success. Books I love: "Dovey Coe", "Drums,Girls and Dangerous Pie", "Flipped", "firegirl", "Schooled" and "Olive's Ocean".
ReplyDeleteI'll have to look a couple of those up...I have read a few of them, but I am looking for some more books to add into my lit circles for the next round. Schooled has been on my list to read for sometime. Thanks.
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