Do you have students who are interested in math and science, but claim they hate writing or don't know what to write about in their writer’s notebooks? Here are 10 newer picture books to inspire them to write about their passion.
Category: science
Informational Writing that Dazzles + a Giveaway
A couple months back I promised to be more intentional about finding nonfiction picture books to recommend as mentor texts for writing workshop. I've been looking at a lot of informational texts in that time and found a few books by the same author and illustrator team that have dazzled me. A Rock Is Lively,… Continue reading Informational Writing that Dazzles + a Giveaway
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Taking Down the Scaffolds Slowly
After studying Vygotsky 's ZPD in the very first education class I took in college, I came to realize how important scaffolding was. Last summer, nine years after my first education class (That was in 1998: I toyed with the idea of becoming a teacher in college and literally took one ed class my junior… Continue reading Taking Down the Scaffolds Slowly
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Guidelines for a Publishing Party
This was the first time in four years that I ever put together a readers' and listeners' responsibilities list for a Publishing Party. However, I think it helped my students get focused on what their job was at this Publishing Party, for which all of the writing was done OUTSIDE of Writing Workshop during our… Continue reading Guidelines for a Publishing Party
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Drafting a Solar System Book
Tomorrow afternoon in Science Class I'm going to start teaching my kids how to transfer their note cards into details they can use in paragraphs for their Solar System Planet Book. Hence, I needed a model to demonstrate with. Therefore, I spent a bit of time this evening drafting my own report on Planet Earth,… Continue reading Drafting a Solar System Book
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Getting Organized for a “Report” Writing
Th entire fourth grade is going to be doing a report writing within science class (separate from our Writing Workshop). (It's not actually a report since the final form will be an illustrated 10 page non-fiction picture book.) They're also reading nonfiction books about the Solar System in Science Class. Hence, we needed to teach… Continue reading Getting Organized for a “Report” Writing
