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...

After learning about the two types of whales, baleen and toothed, the students focused more specifically on researching Beluga Whales. Ms. W...

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 space research, the students wrote and illustrated at least one fact they found independently from an informational text. ...

After researching space from various informational texts, the students used their Circle Maps to independently write research papers. Before...

In reading we have been learning about informational texts. As a part of those lessons, the students have been using various non-fiction sou...

Today in the computer lab the students began using their KidBlog .They were very excited. In reading we have been learning how to resea...

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

We have been studying Author's Purpose through a variety of texts. To assess the students' understanding, they worked in groups to s...

Last week we learned about the sounds /sh/ and /ch/. To help the students remember /ch/, all of the first grade teachers taught a collaborat...

Over the last two weeks we have been talking about different types of media and their purposes. Two of the main purposes we talked about las...