Spiders, spiders, spiders

Have you seen our spider board?  We spent the week researching spiders and created a fact board complete with nonfiction text features to showcase our work.  We worked on creating illustrations and captions, a table of contents, an index and a glossary.  When you read a nonfiction book with your child, talk about any of these features - and how they help the reader locate information.

Here's a great article about a GIANT spider!  We read the article in class and answered 5W questions (who, what, when, where, why - and how!) about the text.  Click on the image to read the article for yourself.

Nonfiction books are a fun way to introduce your child to different genres.  Kids of all ages love finding facts about things they enjoy.  Have you read any great nonfiction books lately?