Surgery Day
11/17/2017
Kids delight in learning about the world and to learn about the world, students need to read nonfiction books. As students get older, the amount of nonfiction reading increases. As adults, reading nonfiction text is a part of our daily lives: reading instructions, business letters, information, etc. Students are, therefore, needed to be encouraged to read nonfiction materials. Moss (2003) asserted that "early exposure to the language of nonfiction can help enhance children's understanding of exposition and may prevent the difficulties many students encounter with these texts later on." When students are used to reading nonfiction texts, they will probably not feel too overwhelmed by the information they are required to read as they move to middle school, high school, and college. Nonfiction reading is a life skill and it doesn't have to be boring. In third grade, "Surgery Day" had students scan nonfiction articles and magazines to learn about text features. First, third grade surgeons reviewed the list of nonfiction text features before they were given instructions on how to perform their surgery. Then, it was time to save patients' lives! They "transplanted" their chosen text features onto a "patient" and labeled the specific text feature using a band-aid.
Source:
Moss, B. (2003). Exploring the literature of fact: Children's nonfiction trade books in the elementary classroom. New York: Guilford. Comments are closed.
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Jessica GrahamMs. Graham graduated from the University of Alabama with a BS in Early Childhood/Elementary Education, and is currently working on her master's in reading. She enjoys hiking, traveling, arts & crafts, and playing the ukulele. Archives
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