Wednesday, January 20, 2010

February Book-of-the-Month

February Book-of-the-Month

The book for February will be nonfiction.  It will be about one subject.  You could select a biography or autobiography, or another nonfiction book about a single subject.
We will focus on external text features and internal text structures/patterns in these books. 
For this month only, the required page minimum is reduced to 47 pages, but of course your book may have more pages.  Select a book that is at or near your reading level. 


For some book suggestions and links to more see  http://cavemanenglish.pbworks.com/Nonfiction


From the State Core:
Objective 2
(Comprehension of Informational Text): Comprehend and evaluate informational text (i.e., textbooks, advertisements, posters).
  1. Identify external text features to enhance comprehension (i.e., headings, subheadings, pictures, captions, bolded words, graphs, charts, and tables of contents).
  2. Comprehend text using internal text structures and their appropriate cue words and phrases (i.e., chronological, sequence, and description).
  3. Retell, paraphrase and summarize from informational text.
  4. Distinguish main idea and supporting details in text.