IPS/Butler University Laboratory School

During Reader’s Workshop we have moved from studying the text features in informational books such as Table of Contents, Glossary, Caption, and Index to using those features to help us answer questions.  This week the students have a job to do using an informational book about weather.  Each student has three questions and they have to read to find out the answers.  The students have been really thoughtful about their work.  They have been reading their book and then using the new information to help them.  They have also been answering the questions in complete sentences with capital letters and punctuation.  Today I met with Emily and she was stuck on one of her questions.  I asked her to tell me her thinking and she said “Well I started off by looking at the Table of Contents.  Then I found the page that said Temperature and knew that it would probably give me the answer on that page.”  After using the Table of Contents she was able to answer her question.  I’m excited that now the students not only know what the text features are, but they are able to use them to help them while they read!

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