Grade 2 - 2015-2016 |
We think about the difference between fiction and nonfiction a lot in Grade 2. We read fiction to get a feel for an idea or a place and we may even learn something from it. From there we go to nonfiction to broaden our knowledge and confirm what we feel we learned in fictional stories.
We started out in September with Dav Pikley's Reading Gives You Superpowers - because it does! ! We read The Snow Show because we got to meet it's author/illustrator Carolyn Fisher at the public library. Then we read some books that helped us understand prairies and the arctic, which are themes in Grade 2 Social Studies..
A guest reader from the community brought in Once there Was a Christmas Tree, to read to us during Share the Gift of Story week.
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Sometimes Mrs. K. picks books to read at library class that are just fun!
Before Book Fair, we always take some time to think about choosing books that we'll enjoy reading. We started out by talking about browsing, the variety of books, and accidental discovery.
April is Poetry Month - We're finding out about all the ways that poets play with words by looking at variations of classic poems.
With the following, we're talking about what elements of the stories come from the author's and illustrator's imaginations and which elements they might need to research. Related nonfiction are discussed with each story.