During second quarter our focus during Reader’s Workshop is nonfiction text. We have spent the first part of this quarter learning about nonfiction text features and how they help us when we read informational text.
A Great Culminating Project for a Nonfiction Text Features Study!
Today we did an activity that my students really enjoyed. I saved a few of our Time For Kids magazines, ones we had already read and discussed. I collected them and saved them for this activity. Today I pulled those out and we went on a scavenger hunt searching for 7 different nonfiction text features.
Of course, I had already scoped them out and knew which features were for sure in the magazines. I typed up a directions page for my kiddos to use and we looked at the sample I had made so they would know just what they needed to do.
You can find the directions page for free to use with your class here…
As I said, we have been working on learning about the text features for a few weeks now. We used a folded booklet that I had created to use in my class for the introductory part of the unit. It is available as a paid product in my TpT store (Searching for Nonfiction Text Features).
It contains the components for the booklet, response sheets, and posters for each of the eight text features that we focused on in the booklet.
Take care!
