Week of October 6-10

Good morning!

This week we will begin to wind down our study on fiction texts and introduce non-fiction.
Non-fiction means a story is true, based on factual information.

There are two types of non-fiction texts we will be discussing this week.

The first is biography- the story of a person's life as written by someone else.  You learn about the person through the point of view of the writer of the biography  They tell about real people and real events.

The second kind of non-fiction we will discuss this week is autobiography- it also tells the story of a person's life but the person telling the story is talking abut themselves.  You get the point of view of the person who lived that life.  You can learn things about the person that only they know.

This week we will be comparing the events of a fiction story to the life of the author who wrote it. 

Questions we will ask ourselves: Did the author experience similar events in their life as the character they wrote about?  How does this story relate to the author's life?

We will also compare a fiction story about a topic to a non-fiction story about the same topic.  For example an informative article about the stars compared to a fictional story about  the stars.

We will also be working on context clues this week.  Students will have homework over context clues tonight due Wednesday.

Thanks for all you do!