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!
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