It’s BIOGRAPHY SEASON!

On Monday, we started reading biographies.  I shared parts of the book Who Was Martin Luther King Jr.? and we discussed elements of a biography and went shopping to find the person we wanted to know more about.  I have a large collection of biographies and it was really fun to watch them choose their person.  We discussed how to choose books and strategies to find a book about someone you really want to know more about. 

Writing is a very important part of our curriculum.  We write EVERY SINGLE DAY!  Here are some things we are doing while reading our biographies:

1.   Note taking – We are taking notes about our books.  The note pages help guide us, but they can add other items if they’d like.

2.   Writing about our reading in our Reader’s Notebooks – Our second label of the week is about our biography.  Writing specific details about our person and telling someone more about their person will help them to write their final biography projects.

3.    Biography Projects – Kids will write a report about their biography person (they don’t know the format of the report yet J ) and will work on the writing features of such a report in the next few weeks.