Readers share new information from their nonfiction reading

In Reading Workshop we are reading to learn new information.  Readers often read new information and talk to people in their lives about exciting new things they learn from their reading.  The students LOVE tagging pages where they learn new information and look forward to sharing the information with their reading partner.  Each day as a class, we read a book for information and practice our comprehension skills by talking about facts we learn and sharing questions we have about the topic.   We are using our read aloud fiction book to make connections to character feelings or problems in the book.  Readers use different strategies when reading different types of books to strengthen their comprehension and build their book conversation skills with others.