Today the 5th graders came to the library to select a book of their choice for their non-fiction project. This project will incorporate reading non-fiction, generating questions while reading, web searching and creating a Keynote presentation. In preparation of them coming, I pulled over 200 books across our entire non-fiction collection that are high interest and under 200 pages. I had to borrow a few tables to display them all. When the students arrived, we walked to each table while I gave a mini-booktalk on some of the really interesting titles such as The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party, Dark Game, Spies of Mississippi, and The Man-Eating Tigers of the Sundarbans. I then had the students sit at one of the tables, with no more than 3 students to a table. They had to pick at least one book from the table and write down the title, call number, subject, and mark their level of interest on a form that I provided them. They would have 2 minutes to do this and then move to the next table. I used Online Stopwatch to time them. By the time they were done, the students had made notes on at least 8 books. They then could check out their favorite book. Every student was easily able to find a non-fiction book that appealed to him or her; most of the students were really excited about their selection.
These 5th graders will now have three weeks to read their book. As they are reading, they will generate questions about what they are reading on sticky notes. Many of these questions will most likely be answered as they continue to read the book, but some their questions will require them to search the Internet. We are using this unit to discuss web-searching techniques and finding reliable web sources; they will have time in class to search for answers to their questions. After they have finish reading the book and answering their questions, they will select their four best questions, which they will explain to their classmates in a five to seven minute Keynote presentation.
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