old Connections ESC Region 11 Fall Library Conference 2024

Based on ideas from Melissa Stewart's Five Kinds of Nonfiction, I'll share mini-lesson and co-teaching ideas centered around students classifying the best nonfiction resources for a given research task, creating their own anchor charts, ranking the books, and sharing their reasoning. I will share things that worked well (collaboration!) and that didn't (never enough time). We used a "wicked good" nonfiction theme as we did this unit around Halloween...but any theme could apply! Students came away with a better understanding of how to find and use text features in nonfiction books in research. I hope to share more ideas on ways to share nonfiction titles with students and extend these teaching ideas to digital resources.