Feature Articles

In Writing Workshop, we continue to focus on 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 answer. 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, we learned about plagiarism. It's important that children learn not to copy exact sentences from their research. We practiced pulling 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 a subtopic they decided to focus on and one fact fragment that they recorded about it today.