Last week, we continued to read great non-fiction animal books to learn about the amazing animals in our world. We talked about how non-fiction readers read about things they are interested in, helping us develop passions that we want to learn more about. As we learned things about animals that were really interesting to us, we wrote the things we learned down on post-its to share with others as well as the questions that we had after reading. |
We also talked about how non-fiction readers can look for answers to their animal questions in non-fiction books. We started generating questions about things we want to know about animals and spent time looking through our non-fiction books for answers to these questions. Starting this process of going to books to find answers has been a great way for kids to get to know how useful nonfiction text features are and begin the process of "reading to learn new information" and keeping track of that new learning.
Q: Why do giraffes have long necks? A: Because they eat leaves on tall trees. They need to be able to reach them Q: Why do some fish suck up their babies? A: To protect them from danger | Q: Why do cheetahs run so fast? A: To catch their prey Q: How do doctors make anti-venom A: They use real snake venom to make anti-venom | Q: Why are Komodo dragons so big? A: To swallow their prey whole Q: Dogs teeth are so sharp. Why? A: Dogs are actually wolves :) |