Value of Nonfiction

• Mentor texts
• Expose students to variety of nonfiction available
• Addresses the issue of audience, purpose, and form
• Tap into natural curiosity
• Allows students to start with a keen interest or curiosity and narrow down research to an essential question
• FQR and KWL charts help them learn how to organize
• Students can move away from "writing for the teacher" and realize they have the opportunity to have a more wide-ranging audience

Poetry Characteristics

POETRY BOOKS
Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors

• Overall theme of seasons and colors
• Descriptive language
• Imagery
• Personification
• Onomatopoeia
• Structure of words accompanies the content

Mathematicals

• Rhythm
• Concrete
• Phrases rather than complete sentences

What a Day it Was at School!

• Anthology of sorts
• Humorous
• Rhymes