Brave Irene - Setting Brace Map

Over the last week, we started reviewing literary elements again.  Identifying the setting was the one area of literary elements that our first graders struggled with the most.  On Friday, we read the story Brave Irene (great story by the way) and came up with the 3 settings from the story.  We used a brace map to display the settings and then added evidence that supported the setting identifiation. The kiddos did great with it.  See below....

Day #8 - Nonfiction Text Features - Glossary

For the last day of studying nonfiction text features, we learned about the glossary.  Day #2 of the blog posts has further instructions as to how I laid out each lesson.

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Day #7 - Nonfiction Text Features - Table of Contents

Day #7 we learned about Table of Contents. Again, look at post for Day #2 to see how I laid out the lesson.

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Day #6 - Nonfiction Text Features - Labels

For Day #6 of our Nonfiction studies, we focused on labels.  Again, I followed the lesson plan outline listed in Day #2.

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Day #5 - Nonfiction Text Features - Types of Print

On Day #5, we focused on types of print in nonfiction books. We talked about words that were highlighted, written in a different color, bold, written in italics, and underlined. Again, for the lesson I followed the same layout as mentioned in the post about Day #2

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Day #4 - Nonfiction Text Features - Headings

On Day #4 of our Nonfiction Text Features study, we focused on headings.  Again, we followed the same lesson format as listed in Day #2.

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