This week's text is...
A Cool Drink of Water by Barbara Kerley
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This text is a narrative nonfiction piece of text, most appropriate for students in the upper grades,
although it can be used in the primary grades as well.
Possible Minilessons for Writing Workshop:- List structure
- Use of font, capitals, italics to emphasize certain words/ideas.
- Use of ellipses to get reader ready for a list
- Engaging photographs depicting the use of water all over the world
- Vivid verbs start off each page
- Specific adjectives/word choice
- Repetition
- Varied sentence lengths
- Varied sentence beginnings
- Content specific vocabulary introduced
- Conclusion that relates the topic to each reader and wraps up the text
- Extra information about the topic ("A cool drink around the WORLD")
- Maps
- Clever title
- Note from Scholastic at the back of the book about their effort to lessen environmental waste
- Interesting quotes about water from various figures at various times in civilization
- Letter at the back about water conservation from the President and C.E.O. of the National Georgraohic Society
Click here for a Teacher's Guide for this book
