Non Fiction Text

We have finally started to circulate non-fiction books. The students compared a fiction book, Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed, by Mo Willems to The Naked Mole Rat, by Jody Sullivan Rake.  The objective was to become experts on what the mole rat eats, where the mole rat lives, and how long a mole rat lives.  The children quickly discovered through an anticipation guide, and using the interactive white boar, that the fiction book could not help them become experts.  In the next few weeks we will thoroughly investigate text features of non-fiction, keeping our non-fiction books in order, and elements of non-fiction.