Text Features, Sticky Notes + Writing a Paragraph

Last year I reviewed text features with the Titanic.  This year its spiders and bats.  So far we have talked about the index, labeled diagram and glossary.  Here are a couple of the lesson anchor charts:

We completed the glossary poster on Friday (the blanks being glossary, keywords, definition (meaning).  We practiced highlighting keywords and parts of sentences with a Bat Fact sheet that I projected onto my whiteboard.  Of course I Xd their highlights out twice!  The next day we looked at a great Mailbox sheet about bats and the glossary (no Xing it out that day).

A few weeks back we looked at writing our notes on sticky notes.  Here is the list:

 

We have also begun to write paragraphs.  Here are our charts for writing a basic paragraph.  We used this format to write about spiders and now bats as well.