Readers' Workshop

The students continue to read books from different series.  Nate the Great, Cam Jansen, Junie B. Jones, Magic Tree House, and A-Z Mysteries are some of our favorites so far. While reading fiction books the reader will often come across something that they want to learn more about.  We have been paying attention to these things while reading our series books.  I am reading the Eve of the Emperor Penguin to the class.  For homework last week the kids researched Emperor Penguins.  This week we will take our facts and compile them into a class chart.  We will reference this chart while we read aloud The Eve  of the Emperor Penguin to see how the author, Mary Pope Osborne, uses this information.  Does she use the facts correctly or stray a little?