The Beginning of our project

Today we looked again at nonfiction text.  Mrs. Betts was so impressed with what we remembered about the many features of this type of writing.  We were able to tell her that nonfiction text had:

• a table of contents (and where you find it), 
• an index (which is different than the table of contents - it has more information), 
• a glossary and what it is and where you find it, 
• pictures with captions, 
• diagrams with labels and 
• fact boxes.  

We also learned that nonfiction books have headings which tell us what information is on that page.

After we talked about the features we got to choose our own nonfiction book and do a features search.  We looked through the book to see how many features it had and recorded them on our paper.  We were given the challenge to record some of the information we learned on the back of our paper. We loved doing this!   

Some of the books we got to choose from!

Busy at work!

My book has a glossary!

Mrs. Betts said we are going to start our own research project on a Canadian animal.  First she is going to show us how to take notes from books and the internet.  Stay tuned for our next step!  Have you ever done a research project before?  How did you do it?