MELVIN BERGER IS OUR INFORMATIONAL AUTHOR STUDY! WE noticed FEATURES of informational books!!!4/10/2015 We are revisiting the personal narrative genre for the last time this school year. This time, we text mapped more complex mentor texts filled with amazing language (similes and metaphors) and complicated structures (a flashback). WE read Up North At the Cabin and The Leaving Morning. Your children voted for Junkyard Wonders and Some Birthday by Patricia Polacco to be additional mentor texts that we read and studied. This time we added words and pictures to our text maps, as well as TRANSITION WORDS~ using first, next, then, after that, now, finally, and lastly. This will help our writing, too!
First Graders are scored on a Writing About Reading Rubric starting in January....WE need to make sure we have a strong opening with a BIG IDEA, EVIDENCE and proof from the book to support our thinking (this is HUGE in Common Core), a strong ending, and letters/punctuation/spaces/capitals all like a book!
We wrote our own definition, voted on Mentor Texts, and have been reading HOW TO writing during Readers Workshop! Then, we text map~ noticing the materials needed, numbered steps, pictures that teach, and directions often with warnings and tips! Some favorites we've read are, How To Babysit Grandpa, How To Babysit Grandma, How to Lose All Your Friends, How to do Karate, How to do Gymnastics, How to do Ballet, Making a Liquid Rainbow (Science), How To Make Slime, and more! Soon we will text map our own Readers Workshop HOW TO books, and write our own class How To book.... HOW TO HAVE STAR BEHAVIOR OR HOW TO TAKE CARE OF DORA PERHAPS?? Stay tuned!
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