One of my 6th grade Language Arts' teachers does monthly or bimonthly units on
different book genres. The next one is the narrow category of non-fiction.
Usually for other genres, she has them read the entire book and do some kind of
assignment on it or a report. She wants to break out of that mold and do something
different with non-fiction books.
I pulled a bunch of non-fiction books for her classes to choose from so they didn't
go after things like Guinness Book - I chose books that were single topic not a
whole bunch of unrelated topics.
She wants something more than read this and do a report and she wants to steer
students away from picking just the smallest/thinnest books to be done reading
quickly (unless they have low reading levels then we can give smaller books to
those students). However, she doesn't want to set a page minimum because while
some books may only be 80 pages, they are chock full of information.
I never taught LA so I have no clue what to suggest. Can anyone send me ideas of
what they have seen their teachers do with non-fiction books and how to avoid the
size trap?
I am off to search for book report alternatives to see if I can find something
there.
Thanks!
Hilary L. Grant
Media Specialist
Highland Middle School
305 N. John Street
Highland, MI 48357
granth@huronvalley.k12.mi.us
248-684-8007
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