We have been immersing ourselves in Gail Gibbons' non fiction books and generating ideas for a piece of writing of our own using Gibbons strategies, like: Looking for the "How?" of everyday objects, thinking about topics that are very interesting to us and that we have lots of questions about etc. We then learned from Gail Gibbons that writers select a topic that they are excited and curious about, are able to illustrate, have lots of questions that they will be able to find answers for and will be able to find more information on... We shared our topic choice with the class and we're enthusiastic to begin...
We are ready to start collecting more information on our topic. How does Gail Gibbons collect information and research? She reads what other authors have written on the subject. We have been spending these last couple of days finding books and materials on our topic. We have searched our libraries in school, at home and some of us even went to the public library to find appropriate books! Then we took sticky notes and marked parts of books that has information we want to include in our writing.
Gail Gibbons also researches her topic by interviewing experts. In our next writing workshop on Tuesday we will be preparing interview questions to find out more about our topic.
We would love if some of our parents who are "Experts" on the topics we have chosen would be able to come in on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday to answer our questions and be interviewed by us...
These are the topics our class has chosen: sharks, giraffes, computers, human bodies, butterflies and horses.
Any parents who love animals or know about computers or know about the way our bodies work, please let me know if you are able to make it into school one day next week for a half hour. It would be so meaningful to our class!
Thanks!
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Morah Rivki
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