It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 10.22.18.Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday Mock Orbis Pictu.#road2reading Challenge books for boys - books for.It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 10.29.18.Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday - my picture boo.We also talk about the Author's Note - so many readers skip this very important part but after looking at some examples, we see that so often an author might share information about the experts that were consulted when writing the book. We discuss how writers must do the same thing and we talk about how this information is usually found in the backmatter. each grade level has done some work with citing their sources.this category is easy for fourth graders because as third graders we had already looked at author opinion and how information can be framed by writers and how we can form our own opinion about what we read.We took a closer look at each category and talked about how we would go about thinking and discussing each one. I made a booklet the students would use with 2 questions for each category. Included in the guide are some very kid friendly questions to help them frame their thinking. They include: accuracy, organization, design and style. It was here that I found the categories the committee uses to critique the books. The NCTE site has put together a very helpful guide to start you on your way. There were several familiar books to them ( If Sharks Disappeared, Dazzle Ships, Her Right Foot and Grand Canyon) and we talked about what stood out about those books. I showed them the Orbis Pictus site and we looked at last year's winners. We talked about NCTE and the Orbis Pictus award. I started out by introducing the Mock Orbis Pictus to each classroom that was partaking in the fun! We talked about the other "Mock" awards we do as a school - these students have already participated in Mock Geisel and Mock Caldecott for the past three years so for them, this is something that was familiar. The fantastic part about critiquing nonfiction material is it ties into our curriculum standards so well. I've always viewed any "mock" award process as a way to expose students to amazing literature while getting them to dig deeper into criteria that makes the books great. Hope you were able to stop by last Wednesday and read about my switch to trying NCTE's Mock Orbis Pictus with students this year. With students to promote a love of reading nonfiction materials.
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