Day 12

Today we're featuring some students using non-fiction reading skills.  Non-fiction can be a fun genre for summer.  Students can read biographies of inspiring people, learn how to do something they've always wanted to try, or dig deeper into a passion they've developed.

Today, some of our students were reading an Origami book with one of our reading teachers and used what they learned to create their own Origami.  Talk about persistence!

Students in our English Language class were writing stories this morning and using another type of non-fiction: reference books.  This morning's lesson was on synonyms and they used the thesaurus to look up synonyms of words they were using in their writing.  Here they are working on their stories:

What non-fiction are you reading this summer?