Today we finalized our four chapters for our NYC Parks All-About Book and created title for them. Our four chapters will be:
1. Plants and Animals Around You
2. Playing at the Park
3. People All Around
4. Parks in the Past
We then learned more about the organization of Information Texts. In kindergarten we learned that the title of a nonfiction book tells us what the whole text will be about. In first grade we learned that the title's idea is split into smaller ideas that become chapter titles. Organizing our thoughts into chapters took a lot of work last year. This year, we are breaking those chapters into even smaller ideas using headings. We studied a published book about Abraham Lincoln first to see how this text feature helped us find ideas quickly without reading the entire book. We then looked at an informational text about poodles and found out how much water a poodle should drink in less than a minute - even though the book was quite long!
We then began creating headings within our four chapters. Tomorrow, we'll continue that work before deciding which chapter and heading we'd like to draft individually to contribute to our class book. Stay tuned!
