Students in K1 enjoyed a series of fiction dinosaur books called How Do Dinosaurs... by Jane Yolen. In these books we realized that the stories must be make-believe because real dinosaurs would not have gone to bed with a teddy bear or ridden to school in a bus! We also shared several nonfiction books about dinosaurs and discovered the table of contents, diagrams, index and real-looking images.
K2 students shared a fiction book called Big Pumpkin by Erica Silverman and a nonfiction electronic book on Starfall.com called Pumpkin, Pumpkin. The children were thrilled by the real photographs of a pumkin that was taller than them! We also enjoyed a fiction story about fall called Leaf Man by Louis Elhert, a realistic fiction video called Ruby's Leaf Collection and a nonfiction film from BrainPop on Fall. We discussed which information from each story was fact or fiction.
Recommended resources to reinforce fiction and nonfiction concepts at home:
BookFlix:
A database of paired fiction and nonfiction video stories and books, ideal for students in grades K1-2. ASD subscribes to this online resource available from our website:
http://sites.google.com/a/asdubai.org/elem/Home/passwords/password
Star Fall:
Starfall.com is a free public website that is designed to motivate children to read with phonics. Games, stories and puzzles are appropriate for early readers.
http://www.starfall.com/
BrainPOP Jr.:
Animated Science, Health, Technology, Math, Social Studies, Arts & Music and English movies, quizzes, activity pages and school homework help for K-12. Available from our website:
http://sites.google.com/a/asdubai.org/elem/Home/passwords/password
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