Grade 3 - 2015-2016 |
In Grade 3 we focus on a deeper understanding of the library and how libraries work, with books sorted into categories by names, letters & numbers, and how our library in particular is arranged. We also learn to choose books that we will enjoy.
We started off the year with Dav Pilkey's Reading Gives You Superpowers just to remind us how fabulous it is to be able to read.
Next we spent a class learning how to choose "Good Fit" books, the model used in the classroom. We watched How to Pick a Good Fit Book and each student received a bookmark to remind them.
We started off the year with Dav Pilkey's Reading Gives You Superpowers just to remind us how fabulous it is to be able to read.
Next we spent a class learning how to choose "Good Fit" books, the model used in the classroom. We watched How to Pick a Good Fit Book and each student received a bookmark to remind them.
For the following 8 weeks, we toured the library, "Island by Island". This is the first year students have had the run of the library, aside from the Young Adult section, so they got to know one section of the library at a time. Now they know what kinds of books they can choose from and where they might be found.
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After that, we read some books about India, which is one of the countries Grade 3 learns about in Social Studies. A reader from the community read a seasonal book to us for Share the Gift of Story.
Now, since we're spending a few weeks getting everyone to take a turn at our Show & Share circle. After checking out our books, we all gather in a circle on the carpet to find out what treasures our classmates have found, where in the library they found them and what made them so attractive.
For the last few weeks we'll be looking at fiction and nonfiction, specifically what 'nonfiction' research might go into the writing and illustrating of a fiction book and what elements are dreamt-up in an author or illustrator's imagination. Picture books, chapter books and nonfiction books relating to the stories we read, are displayed and some are discussed.