READ for at least 20 minutes at home every day! Be sure to fill out your Reading Log every time you read. You must have your Log with your Orange Folder in class every day. You must also have your independent reading book with you. You are unprepared for class without them.
UNIT: Non Fiction
Non fiction reading is is organized around specific topics and ideas. It is reading to learn something NEW!
Genres and Definitions
Editorial: a brief but carefully organized essay that expresses an opinion and supports it.
Fact and Opinion: something that can be proved real or true. An opinion is a judgement or belief.
Informational: texts (Social Studies/Health) that provide ideas, facts, and principles that are related to the physical, biological, or social world.
Biography: an account of the life of an indidual.
Autobiography: an account of the life of an indidual written by the subject.
Memoir: the account of a personal or historical event.
Informational texts inform about or explain something.
Narrative non fiction texts is true facts told in a story form.
STRONG READERS:
-Choose non fiction books based on interests (sports, weather, artists, cultures...).
-Notice organizational tools and patterns to help them find information they need quickly. These tools include: Table of Contents
Headings
Subheadings
Glossary
Index
Pictures with Captions
-Envision a topic by using their senses (hear, smell, taste, touch, sight) to capture the details. Visualizing helps you comprehend and hold onto the facts.
-Ask: Do I know anything about this topic? If so, what?
-Grow ideas by thinking, "The text says...therefore, I say..."
-Find the main idea and supporting information by looking at the section heading. "This part teaches me..."
-Find the main idea by noticing key sentences; often the first sentence (but not always)