Thursday, December 4, 2014

15 Words or Less Poem Friday

Write a poem with 15 words or less about the picture below.
Click on the COMMENTS. Click on anonymous. Type your poem and leave your first name and last initial.

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Wednesday, December 3, 2014

15 Words or Less Poetry Thursday

Write a poem with 15 words or less about the picture below.
Click on the COMMENTS. Click on anonymous. Type your poem and leave your first name and last initial. 

Monday, December 1, 2014

Volcano 15 words or less Poem Tuesday

Write a poem with 15 words or less about the picture below.
Click on the COMMENTS. Click on anonymous. Type your poem and leave your first name and last initial. 

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Broken Lock Poem Monday

Write a poem with 15 words or less about the picture below.
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Nonfiction Strategies Anchor Charts

We read the Time for Kids article called "Building a Tsunami Warning System." What I like about this article is that the students do not have much schema about this topic and, more importantly, it has procedural text embedded into the article. 

We also read a smaller article in Time for Kids about Citrus Greening Disease that is happening in Florida. We did the main idea of each subheading and then creating a nonfiction summary based on our main ideas. 





This is how we approached procedural text. I was noticing that most procedural do not stand alone but embedded into a larger article. This Time for Kids article was about the cause and effect of fertilizer in riverbeds. We analyzed the text features of procedural text. 








ChatterKids and Natural Hazards