Bibliography Information

Remember: You must have a Bibliography for your informational book if you want to receive credit for it.  You should have at least three different sources.

Here is the format your bibliography should look like:

This is what mine looks like:

You can use www.citationmachine.net to create your bibliography.  Click MLA and fill in your information.

Text Features

Today, we discussed what text features we will use in our books.  We justified why we were choosing each one.


TEXT FEATURES WE BRAINSTORMED IN CLASS:

TABLE OF CONTENTS, HEADING, SUBHEADING, GLOSSARY, INDEX, PHOTOS/ILLUSTRATIONS, CHARTS/GRAPHS/DIAGRAMS, VOCAB. BOX, QUIZES, SIDEBARS, DID YOU KNOW, FYI, FUN FACTS, CHAPTER SUMMARIES . . . .

Where do your post-its lie?

Look at your post-its for central idea.  Where would you put them on our chart?

Context Clues

Remember:

When reading Fiction and Nonfiction we want to keep track of new words we are learning.

Don't skip unknown words.  Use the context clues to figure it out!

(then write the word and clues in your vocab. chart)

Organizing our Books

Think about how you want to plan your book.

I made a box for each section of my book.

I drew in each box what I wanted my book to look like.

Then, I went through my draft and pulled out the central idea and supporting details for each section.

Here's what it looked like.  . .

You don't have to do yours this way.  Just make sure you have an idea of how you want your book organized and that each section has a central idea.

Sequence Structure

When working with the Sequence structure of nonfiction we can write our notes in time-line form.
Our writing might look like this . . .

Writing with Compare/Contrast

Creating double bubbles and double t-charts are a great way to compare and contrast.

We also want to practice writing in this structure. . .

Compare and Contrast

Today, we studied the Compare/Contrast Structure of nonfiction.

To introduce ourselves to the structure, we first begain by brainstorming and taking notes in compare contrast format.


Notice how I used the DOUBLE BUBBLE to compare Hamsters, Rabbits, and Fish.

This example takes the Double Bubble even further.

I thought it was a fastastic example of how our thoughts change when we are researching.

Notice, when you create notes with your post-its, you can easily move them around to fit into different ideas!

Here, we will find two additional examples of what a compare and contrast chart might look like.