In Writer's Workshop we have been working on the Report writing genre. The students have spent the last few weeks writing "All About" an animal or non-fiction topic of their choice. We are working towards meeting the Common Core Standard W.K.2. Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic. We have a wide array of experts in our class! I have had a students write reports on a variety of topics ranging from dogs, bears, hyenas and dolphins to their friends, family, me :) and the San Francisco Giants baseball team. This week we began working with a graphic organizer called a "web" to gather and organize facts about a topic. The students have to tell one fact about what the animal looks like, what it eats, where it lives and something cool or unique about them. If they choose to write about another non-fiction topic, they must include 4 or more facts in their writing. Ask your child what they are "experts" on and find out what interesting facts they know!
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