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October 23, 2014

Fiction or Non-Fiction?

When teaching what type of books are fiction and which are non-fiction, my brain always has to stop and think about which is which. 

How come people who name things can't make them easy to remember?
Shouldn't non-fiction be NOT real?
Firsties would catch on SO much quicker that way, but since it's not here's what we've been doing.

We started off by making these 2 anchor charts together.
We sorted the different pictures after discovering the 2 types of books after looking at a pile of each and sorting them according to what, yes, BrainPop had told us to look for.

Each day we focused on a different feature and added it to our non-fiction feature chart.
I would show them examples from a non-fiction book I would read.
Then in partners, they would use a non-fiction book to find a feature in their books.

Last week was Bat Week so we did a little searching through non-fiction books about bats to record what we had learned from the features in the book.

Teaching non-fiction is definitely one of my most favorite things!
The kids are always so engaged and proud when they learn lots of facts about one certain thing.

Next up, pumpkins!

5 comments:

  1. What a great way to show the difference between F and NF and to show text features!
    -Amanda
    Kindergarten Teacher at the Wheel

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    1. Thanks! I would call myself and anchor chart addict ; )

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  3. Would you be willing to share where you found your images for the text features ancho chart? I'm hoping to start this tomorrow with my firsties but I love your color photos vs black and white copied ones.

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    1. I literally typed each one into googled and borrowed images from there : )

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