Nonfiction with Unit 5

When we set out planning our unit, we decided to do the first part of the week as nonfiction learning about the country and then the second part as the fables from the country. So we began with China nd then moved to Ireland. We began with a review of nonfiction text features and discussed how internet sites have nonfiction text features as well.


I had the kids make a quick list of nonfiction text features in their reading notebooks. Then they shared this information with a partner. We made our class list of nonfiction text features. Then looked at the ones we had and discussed how they were similar and different from the ones we see on websites.

We pulled a lot of our information from national geographic for kids. They had several of the nonfiction text fetures such as headings, bold words, etc. that we were able to discuss and use to located information. Then the kids began making a web in their notes by taking notes while we went through the different web pages.