Nonfiction

We are diving into nonfiction during Reading and Writing Workshops! Nonfiction is lots of fun! We love it because children love reading and learning about topics of their choice.

In Writing Workshop, Mr. Kerr is teaching us to write feature articles. Each child has chosen the topic that they want to research and then write about. It was exciting to see inquisitive brains at work as children developed questions they want to learn about. Finally, they turned those questions into subtopics. Subtopics are the smaller topics within the larger one that researchers want to focus on in their article.

As many researchers began taking notes today, Mr. Kerr taught us about plagiarism. It's important that children learn not to copy exact sentences from their research. Mr. Kerr taught children to pull out "fact fragments" - the most important words from a sentence that contain the chunk of meaning. This is a skill the children will be developing for years to come.

Ask your child to tell you about their research topic. I'm sure they will have lots to share!