Common Core: How's that Working for You?

There's a whole lot of informational text being decifered in the media center, and it's not just by 8th graders.  First grade students will begin a unit on non-fiction reading strategies using our ever popular dog series beginning this week.  Second grade students have been reading, discussing, and pulling apart solar system books in order to find facts that they will include in their fantasy stories about space, third grade students are currently finishing up their Evansville history unit by perusing a website that details the terms of each of Evansville's mayors. 4th graders are beginning a volcano unit where they will research volcanoes and develop lesson plans for Kindergarten and 1st grade students. 5th graders are beginning a research teaching unit on ecosystems, 6th graders will begin a space unit in January; 7th graders are doing research on Victorian England and how it affected the writing of Charles Dickens, and 8th graders just finished partner texts that showed the development of themes in the writing of J.R.R. Tolkien.  You don't have to read between the lines to understand that our media center is being used alot to help our students understand the research process while delving into informational text.  Come by sometimes; you might learn something.