Reading Nonfiction Texts

In first grade, in this new year, we have jumped right into learning all about nonfiction!  We will be studying nonfiction texts during our reading workshop as well as learning about how to write nonfiction books during our writing workshop. We are off to a great!  

During reading workshop we have begun learning...

We started reading this book on insects and were amazed at how much we could learn just by really studying and thinking about each page!!

During writing workshop students are learning  about special features in nonfiction texts and how they help the reader learn as much as possible about the topic of the book.  

So far we have learned about...

Students are making their own pages for each feature which will be staples together into a book eventually.