After reading A Bad Case of Stripes and Too Many Toys by David Shannon, the students created Venn Diagrams to compare the stories. After cre...

To learn about the elements and features of fiction story, we read various David Shannon books. One of the books we read was A Bad Case of S...

As a part of our lessons on fiction story elements and our author study of Eric Carle, we compared the stories The Mixed-Up Chameleon and Th...

The students read The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle as a part of our author study and lessons on fiction story elements. After reading th...

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

We recently read The Cow Who Clucked by Denise Fleming  to further learn how to make connections to a story. After reading and discussing so...

To help the students understand the difference between expository and fiction texts, we read Scaredy Crow (from ReadingA-Z ) and All Kinds o...