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Today we were text detectives and learned how to find the main idea and supporting details.

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Students have been working hard on our biography projects! Students are excited to share what they have learned about the person they are researching. Please help ensure your child is working hard on their presentations at home so they are ready to present starting March 25th.  Students are encouraged to dress up and I can't wait to see their presentations!!

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When reading nonfiction, the reader learns information that actually happened. However, when we look closely at a nonfiction text, we can determine what point of view the text is written from. If the text includes words like I, me, we then the text is written in first person point of view. This information is considered a primary source and the reader is getting firsthand information.

If a text is written in third-person point of view, it will include words like they, he, she, them, and name the main people involved in the story. This information is secondhand information.  A person may have seen an event take place or heard about it from someone else or researched an event and wrote about it.

When comparing first and secondhand accounts of the same event, the reader will get many more details and more accurate information from the firsthand account. Just like in the game telephone, facts and information can be very different when reading a secondhand account.

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eSpark Learning: Comparing Firsthand and Secondhand Events Instructional Video (Fa13, 4RI, Quest 11)

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I am very excited that we will be going to the Abraham Lincoln museum and visiting his home in Springfield, IL. For more information about our upcoming field trip, please check out the museum's website.

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Reasons and evidence are important to know when reading nonfiction text. Often the author will give reasons why something happened and then give evidence to support the reasons they give. Sometimes you will have to answer questions and find the evidence or reasons an author gives as to why something happened in the story. This is also important to know when you write nonfiction for an essay. Watch this funny video that explains reasons and evidence.

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Introduction to Reading Skills: Claims and Supporting Evidence

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When you are reading a story or text in class, you will often have to answer questions about what you read. Asking and answering questions about what you read improves your comprehension and makes sure you understand what you are reading. Often, the types of questions you will be asked have a certain relationship. Knowing the relationship between a question and the answer will help you to quickly figure out how to find the information you need.

1. The first type of question-answer relationship is "Right There." A right there question asks you to look back at the story and find the answer. You can point to a sentence in the story that answers the question for you. All you have to do is look back at the story, point out some of the words used in the question and write what the book says. These questions are super easy! :)

2. The second type of question-answer relationship is "Think and Search." With these questions, you have to think about what the answer is and look in more than one place in the story to find the answer. As long as you go back to the story, these questions are easy to find the answers to.

3. The third type of question is the trickiest; these questions are called "Author and You" questions. These questions want you to make an inference, or use what you know plus some clues from the text to decide what the best answer is.

4. The last type of question is called "On Your Own." These questions are the best because there is really no wrong answer! :) Sometimes you don't even have to read the story to be able to answer these questions. Often, you need to make a text to self connection to answer these questions.

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We started our school year reading informational texts or nonfiction texts. Harriet Tubman and Abraham Lincoln are biographies based on their real lives. When you read nonfiction texts, authors add nonfiction text features to help you to better understand what you are reading. Take a look at this video to learn more about nonfiction text features!

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In class, we are reading about Abraham Lincoln. Before reading about Abe, we learned about slavery and how Harriet Tubman escaped slavery to become a conductor of the underground railroad and a spy for the union army.