During our study on the oceans, we have been learning to distinguish between fiction and nonfiction texts. The students are getting very good at not only telling if a book is fiction or nonfiction but also showing evidence to support their thinking. In the pictures below, students are sorting books into fiction and nonfiction and explaining their thinking to their group members.
When you are reading at home, ask your child if the books are fiction or nonfiction and listen to their reasoning skills. In our fiction vs nonfiction discussions, we have also been defining different features of nonfiction text like labels, photographs, captions, index, table of contents, close-ups, bold words, and headings. Look at this little man below, he is using the index to identify the names of different fish in the photographs. Has your child been discovering any of these important features of nonfiction?
Here is a short video that describes some of the same nonfiction text features we have discussed in class.
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