What We've Been Up To Part II

 In Reader's Workshop, students have been learning about the comprehension strategy Determining Importance.  One way to find and recall the important information from a nonfiction text is to complete a Facts/Questions/Responses chart.  


To teach students how to complete this chart, we completed one as a class after reading the first article in the special Time for Kids Earth Day issue. 

Then, students read the following article, highlighted facts, and completed a FQR chart independently in their reader's notebook.

Additionally in Reader's Workshop, students learned that while reading historical fiction, good readers can infer important information about a historical time period while reading.  Before reading aloud Cheyenne Again by Eve Bunting, I provided the class with background information about Indian Boarding Schools in the late 1800s.  While I read they completed a chart of facts (inferred information) and inner voice (questions, feelings, reactions).