Showing posts with label non-fiction monday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label non-fiction monday. Show all posts

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Non-Fiction Monday: Fiction vs. Non-fiction

A quick idea for getting kids to recognize the difference between fiction and non-fiction books.  My older students will be helping their Kindergarten buddies with this task on Thursday.


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 strategy 'Zoom In.'

This week's round-up is hosted by Shelf-Employed.  Check out this week's posts here.

Monday, April 5, 2010

Non-Fiction Monday

Kidlitosphere is a great resource for what's going on in the world of blogs to do with books and literacy.  It is a society of bloggers that blog mainly about children and young adult literature.  Non-fiction Monday works much the same as poetry Friday, but keeps us updated on the world of non-fiction books.
 
Check out the full explanation for Non-Fiction Monday at Anastasia's Picture Book of the Day blog.

Check out the round-up for this week at Lerner's Book Blog.  There are a lot of interesting things going on in the world of non-fiction.