All-About Books

 The focus of our writing workshop mini-lesson today was an introduction to writing All-About books. To become familiar with All-About books (non-fiction) we looked at The Pumpkin Book by Gail Gibbons. We noticed that this book had the following specific features:

• A big All-About title
• A How-To Page (how to carve a pumpkin)
• Chapters or sections

In this picture we are looking at  books to notice additional features of non-fiction writing that we may want to include in our own writing.

We noticed that non-fiction books often have:

• A table of contents
• An index or word list
• A glossary
• Headings

Here is an example of A Table of Contents

 This book also had a Table of Contents

 

After spending a lot of time exploring some great non-fiction, we were ready to brainstorm a list of our own possible topics. Next time we will work on structuring our own All-About books!