Informational Text

On Tuesday we began a new unit of study on Informational Text. To begin the unit of study we brainstormed everything we knew (our schema) about Information Texts.  Below is what we know.

What We Know About Informational Texts:

• Tells you true information (help you learn something)
• Tells you about a specific thing (topic)
• Tells you about things that have happened in the past
• Shows you real photographs of things in the past and things that are happening right now
• Teach you about something, which is different from other books which tell you a story
• Can give you information about history
• Have a Table of Contents
• Don’t always have to have photographs they can have paintings or drawings
• shows you the timeline of things in the past
• Tells you about how things live
• Usually labels go with a diagram

On Wednesday we read the fiction story The Grouchy Ladybug.  We discussed the elements of a story: characters, setting, problem and solution.

On Thursday we read the non-fiction story Ladybugs.  We discussed the elements of a non-fiction story.  Many of us had great schema (prior knowledge) about non-fiction text features. 

On Friday we compared the The Grouchy Ladybug and Ladybugs.  We discussed how the two books were different and the same.  After our mini-lesson students received their very own Informational Text Notebook.  Students began working in their notebook and completed a table where they compared the same two books independently.