Rudolph

We read Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer and created a story map. The kids each illustrated one part of the story map. To review last weeks lesson on entertainment books and inform books, we read a non-fiction book about Caribou and created a Venn Diagram to compare Rudolph to real Caribou.
Take a look at these cute reindeer we made.

 

Entertain/Inform

We are learning about purposes of reading and how to tell the difference between a book that is for entertainment and a book for that is to inform. First, we looked at some books for entertainment and discussed qualities such as talking animals, fun stories and pictures that were drawn. Then, we looked at some books to inform and discussed qualities such as photographs, table of contents or glossary and gives us information. Then we sorted the books by entertain or inform. Finally, we compared a the Three Bears ( entertain) to real bears ( inform). We created a Venn diagram to compare the characters in a entertain book to the characters in a inform book.

 

Fiction/Nonfiction

We read many books last week about community helpers. On Friday we sorted the books by fiction and non-fiction.

Clifford's First Valentine

This idea came from my former teammate April Larremore. Check out her blog Chalk Talk on my blog list.

We read Clifford's First Valentine and discussed things that Clifford did in the story and things a a real dog can do. We have been learning how to tell the difference between real (non-fiction) and make believe (fictional) characters and books. The students created a Clifford out of hearts and then we created a chart of things Clifford did and things that a real dog can do.

Froggy Venn Diagram

After reading Froggy books with our 2nd grade reading buddies, we compared Froggy to a real frog using a Venn Diagram. Click on the photo to enlarge.