I was reading some non-fiction with a first grader during reading today. He had read Junie B Jones, but had also brought over a non-fiction book on "moving" (animals that move). After reading his Junie B book we checked out the non-fiction. He was excited, and was totally engaged. That shouldn't be surprising, as it was a book he chose and was interested in. Hell-ooo!!
When we were done, I asked him to use what he had read to create an animal using 2 different animals in the book. He needed to include 1 special part from each animal... the result was awesome! He made a Squirrel-B, a flying squirrel that had a stinger and bee stripes. He then wrote a sentence about the Squirrel-B on the bottom. I was excited as he made the connection between reading-writing, and he was pointing back to the pieces of the text and writing about it (not just the pictures).
That served as a reminder of what I want to have in my literacy block... there is more to reading comprehension than responding to the 100 questions at the end of a story.
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