{"id":2230,"date":"2012-01-25T19:42:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T00:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/?p=2230"},"modified":"2012-01-25T19:42:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T00:42:42","slug":"biographies-and-main-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/2012\/01\/25\/biographies-and-main-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Biographies and Main Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"

So today we started talking about biographies and main ideas.\u00a0 In school we have been talking about non-fiction for a couple of weeks now.\u00a0 Now we are talking about non-fiction specifically biographies.\u00a0 We read a book today that the children thought was fiction when we started because of the colorful pictures and story like plot, but then after we read it the children and I discussed that it was a biography because it was about a real person.\u00a0 They really enjoyed it so I am excited to talk about it more tomorrow with them!<\/p>\n

In Reader’s Workshop we just started having the conversation about the main idea of the story.\u00a0 We have talked a lot about “What is the story about?” but we have not dived into usually the vocabulary of “What is the main idea?”\u00a0 Today we read a non-fiction book about tornadoes (which the children were SO fascinated by), and then we talked about the main idea and what they thought it was.\u00a0 Most said, “TORNADOES!”\u00a0 But we talked about being a bit more specific to tell what the overall idea of the book was.\u00a0 The main idea is that the book is giving us information about tornadoes so we are more knowledgeable about them.\u00a0 I then asked the children to draw the main idea on a piece of paper.\u00a0 They did a really nice job of drawing tornadoes.\u00a0 Tomorrow we will explore adding words to the page so that it explains the main idea.<\/p>\n

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So today we started talking about biographies and main ideas.\u00a0 In school we have been talking about non-fiction for a couple of weeks now.\u00a0 Now we are talking about non-fiction specifically biographies.\u00a0 We read a book today that the children thought was fiction when we started because of the colorful pictures and story like plot, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":617,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109262],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bucher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/617"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2234,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions\/2234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}