Inspired by their curiosity about animals, students work together to research an animal of their choice and present the information they gather to an authentic audience.

Questions about weather clear up when students use what they learned from their books to create a presentation to share with the rest of the class.

Students take a walk on the wild side when they develop an understanding of nonfiction texts with hands-on experiences and intense analysis.

Water is always moving in a continuous cycle from liquid to solid to gas and back again. Students study this never-ending cycle through shared readings, center activities, and experiments.

Students choose a question to explore, research it using a variety of resources, organize their information on a TCF chart, and then collaboratively write a class scientific explanation.

Students will have a whale of a good time in this lesson in which they use fiction and nonfiction texts to write a letter to an online scientist.

Students gather factual information about frogs and toads to create nonfiction and fiction stories. Drawing is used for prewriting.