Today we read a wonderful book that is an informational narrative called If You Decide to Go to the Moon. Students really got into it as we blasted off into space and sorted sentences from the book under fact or opinion. Even opinion statements can be found in a non-fiction or informational piece. Students volunteered to come up and stick the strip under the right column.
Students are still working on their learning target of identifying if a statement is a fact or an opinion. It is proving to be tricky for many of them. A fact is something that can be proven and an opinion is a belief or what someone thinks. An opinion can change based on who you ask and a fact cannot. We are learning to look for clue words like perhaps, maybe, probably, or should to help us figure out if it is an opinion. Today we read a wonderful book that is an informational narrative called If You Decide to Go to the Moon. Students really got into it as we blasted off into space and sorted sentences from the book under fact or opinion. Even opinion statements can be found in a non-fiction or informational piece. Students volunteered to come up and stick the strip under the right column. We also are keeping in mind what the author's purpose is for writing the books that we are reading, like Journey Back to Lumberjack Camp, If you Decided to Go to the Moon, and Because of Winn Dixie. Below is an explanation of the acronym PIE. The acronym PIE is an easy way to help your child remember the three reasons authors will write a story. We had a discussion about if books could be written for more than one purpose. What do you think? Ask your child what he/she thinks is the purpose for the books that is being read at home for homework. Is it to Persuade? to Inform? Or to Entertain?
3 Comments
timmy
5/17/2013 09:36:40 am
hiiiiiiiiiiiiii! #1 teacher.:):(i'm going to read all my books)I got 30 books. this is timmy. $100,000,000,000,000
Reply
timmy
5/17/2013 10:38:50 am
hi
Reply
braquelle
5/19/2013 07:16:33 am
HI Mrs.Ellis i miss u so much you and ARE YOU HAVEING A GOOD YEAR
Reply
Leave a Reply. |
Mrs. Ellis's Class
Learning & laughing our way through third grade. Archives
June 2020
Categories |