Miss Barber loves reading expository/informational text!
In fourth grade we really focus on reading to learn. One great way to learn new information is by reading newspapers, articles, textbooks, websites, and books. This week, we have been learning about the ways authors help us as we try to understand what we're reading. Authors give us organizational features and graphic features that help us make sense of the text. So we practiced reading those features first, before we even looked at the rest of the text. And we were amazed by how much we could already figure out! After making connections between the graphic and organizational features, we made predictions and asked questions. Then we finally started reading the actual text. We made connections as we read and then used those connections to help us confirm our predictions and answer our questions. Our texts may look messy but that's just a small representation of all the learning going on in our brains!
