Nonfiction Unit 1st-2nd Grades

The amazing 1st grade team in my building, Wildflower Elementary, has embraced the reader's workshop mini-lesson with reckless abandon.  I'm just utterly impressed by the quality of their lessons and hope we'll continue to see our kids grow as readers and deepen their thinking about books.  

They have taken the original 3rd grade nonfiction teaching points and are breaking them down to support with more days on a single teaching point to provide additional practice toward mastery.  Hats of to everyone on the team for collaborating!

1st-2nd Grade Nonfiction Unit: Good readers use a variety of strategies to understand nonfiction text.  

Teaching Point 1: Good readers identify important details about a topic as they read. 

Day 1: Good readers identify important details about a topic as they read. 

-Using Bats by Lily Wood as model/try

Day 2: Good readers identify important details about a topic as they read.

-Using All About Frogs by Jim Arnosky as model/try

Day 3: Good readers identify important details about a topic as they read.

-Using Giraffes by Sally Morgan

Day 4: Good readers identify important details about a topic as they read.

-Using Pigs by Gail Gibbons

Day 5: Good readers identify important details about a topic as they read.

-Using Sharks by Sally Morgan