First grade published Pixie Presentations based on their work on the different roles people play in our community. Please enjoy their wonderful displays!
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First grade published Pixie Presentations based on their work on the different roles people play in our community. Please enjoy their wonderful displays! Click here to view Add Comment You may have heard that the new Common Core State Standards puts much more emphasis on reading and writing nonfiction in schools. But did you know that many children’s nonfiction picture books integrate poetry or poetic language? This kind of writing is often called literary nonfiction. In November, Class 4-1 had the privilege of working with Dr. Ted Kesler, a professor in the Elementary and Early Childhood Education Department of Queens College, for a four week study exploring these kinds of books that he calls poetic nonfiction picture books. In Mr. Kong’s class, the students learned important reading skills such as: reading for main idea, listening for the music in the poetic language, reading poetry with appropriate phrasing and tone, identifying poetic qualities in the writing and how these qualities contribute to the meaning, and synthesizing all the parts of the page and across pages to construct understanding of the text. Meanwhile, in Ms. Avila’s science class, the students were studying crickets. The students took what they learned and composed their own poetic nonfiction about crickets. With Microsoft Publisher, the students then designed their own full-page spreads, using a picture, a paragraph, a poem, and layout. Their products were printed in beautiful color on 17 X 11” poster board and in digital form. The class had a wonderful author’s celebration in the school library with parents, the principal, and Dean Craig Michaels from Queens College in attendance. Students gave critical feedback to their classmates and self-assessed their own work for all the criteria for excellence that they learned in this project. Bravo, Class 4-1! Click here to view |