As many of you have noticed, there is now a bright orange reading log for our nonfiction unit. It focuses on some specific reading skills. Your child has to read a nonfiction piece and tell about the main idea (one sentence that sums up what the piece is about) and five details (sentences that tell more about the main idea and often tell who, what, when, where, why, or how).
Often the reading in nonfiction is very short since nonfiction books tend to be organized in articles. Your child has been told that in such cases, s/he can write about one article and continue reading for the remainder of the forty minutes in another book or in another article in the book. It is important for your child to read at least 40 minutes so that the reading stamina does not decrease during this unit.
