Fact and Fiction in 1st Grade

I have this fabulous set of books that have both fact and fiction about animals.  They make great beginning readers and come in a range of reading levels.

In first grade, we are learning to take notes from both books and online resources.  The purpose of this lesson was to practice taking notes without copying and recognize when writing is a fact or when it is fiction.  We read one of the books together, I demonstrating the note taking and they provided the fiction statements.

Then it was their turn.  They were first to read the book and look online at our database for more facts.  They then shut the book and exited off the database. They took notes and wrote their own fiction statements.  Here are a few samples from my first grade visitors.