Friday first grade had a guest speaker to share information about her job in the promotions department of KISS FM radio. Ms. Guterriez, who ...

In reading we learned about various types of media and the techniques used in each to convey the author's purpose. The students learned ...

We made cookies to assess the students' understanding of fiction and non-fiction with all of the first grade teachers team teaching. We ...

In reading we have been learning about author's purpose. We have been sorting books into fiction and non-fiction categories, or entertai...

In reading we spent a large amount of time analyzing author's purpose. The students explored various forms of media including websites, ...

In reading we have been learning about author's purpose, informational texts, and using text evidence. As a part of these lessons, the s...

As a part of our lessons on author's purpose, we have been discussing different types of media and their purposes. One of the lessons we...

As a part of our study of fables and making connections to lessons in stories, we read The Tortoise and the Hare. The students discussed the...

To help the students learn about the purpose of informational versus entertainment texts and to make a real world connection to the digraph ...