Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Our Learning is Messing





We launched our new reading unit today and the students worked together to sort a large amount of books into self created non-fiction categories.  Many problem solving skills were necessary by the participants to successfully create the task.  Students were faced with peers that didn't agree with their decision and they had to state their claim and provide their evidence for their thinking.  Listening to their peers, thinking about what they heard and responding appropriately were all skills orchestrated beautifully to support this enormous task to completion. 

We will explore text features this week, reasons to use non-fiction books in our everyday life, and how to adjust your voice when reading non-fiction text to sound like a narrator.