What's Cooking in ELA?

Now that we are back to school, it's time to stay focused! In ELA, we are diving into a brand new unit in both reading workshop and writing workshop!

In reading, we are beginning to navigate nonfiction. So far, we are learning that every great nonfiction reader reads with power and energy. One way that we do this is by boosting our minds. Even before we start reading a sentence, paragraph, or text, we look at the title, subtitles, and elements of the book. We start to think to ourselves, "This book must be about...". Next week, we will start noticing more elements of nonfiction texts. Reading nonfiction is like becoming an expert on something! We can even teach others what we know!

In writing, we are also beginning to explore nonfiction writings. Next week, we will begin our unit on Essays. Writers observe the world around them with care, then think about their observations, recording them in writing. They are thoughtful about their ideas. We will kick off this unit by looking at some wonderful examples of essays and nonfiction.

The most exciting part is that we will get to do Social Studies in ELA! We will be learning about the Civil Rights Movement in our history books. Not only will we READ about it, we will also get to WRITE an essay about it to show all we've learned!