This chapter gives great advice on how to choose Informational text and Biographies for your students. Remember to consider your children's preferences. If you are doing a review of Abraham Lincoln, it would be a good idea to have a variety of texts for students to choose from. Also just because it is informational text, it does not have to be boring. For my upper informational text, I chose: Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the World, by Jane
Yolen. This book is so interesting and informational. You could take this book and break it up your class into pairs and them have them give a brief summary of their pirate and what she did during her life.
It is also important that when you make your book selections, you choose books that are written based on accurate facts. Some research can be controversial at times, but if you consider the sources that the author used, you can quickly identify if they have done thorough research or just made stuff up. Our text book explains that children often have difficulty with non-fiction, (especially first grade students). I think that animal books are a great way to expose them to non-fiction. Kids love animals and when you point out that we can learn many other interesting things that are true through non-fiction books, we can hook our students on reading.
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