Nonfiction Writing First Grade Style

We recently used the Shadow Puppet App to share some nonfiction writing.  Here is one of my students reading his nonfiction writing.

{By the way - this writing activity ties in beautifully with the story "How Leopard Got His Spots" that is in the first grade Journeys reading series.}

Day 1

Zebra Writing

We read and discussed the book shown below and then we made a class word bank for students to refer to when writing.

Student then wrote several sentences about zebras and illustrated their pictures.

Day 2

Leopard Writing

  We read and discussed the book shown below and then we made a class word bank for students to refer to when writing.

Day 3

Title and Table of Contents

I gave my students their title and table of content pages.  We assembled the books,  they added a title and filled  in their table of contents page with the page numbers.

Note:  If we would have had more time, I would have added a giraffe page to their books.  And next time we do this, I will have my students add some labels to their illustrations as well.

 Here are a couple more student examples and if you go to the bottom of this post you can grab the nonfiction writing template {free} to use with your students.

You can grab yourself a copy at this link:

Nonfiction Writing

Happy Writing!