Presentations for 4/11

Reading the book Nonfiction Matters taught me a lot about doing nonfiction inquiry projects.  I feel that I am prepared to implement a nonfiction inquiry research project in my classroom.  This book gave me a lot of helpful tips, examples, projects, and basically a step by step outline for what I should do and what I should have my students do.  The point of the presentation was to show my fellow classmates how to do these projects in their own classrooms.  I believe the handout we gave would be very helpful because it is a week by week breakdown of how to format a research project and also the handout was filled with tips that the book continuously referred back to.  They can use this handout; however, it would be beneficial for future teachers to read the whole book to get examples and models and learn the mistakes not to make.  

The presentation for Wondrous Words was very informative.  I felt that I knew what the book was about and by reading it I believe that I will get tips and strategies for how to inspire creativeness.  The activity they had us do is something I definitely want to use in my classroom, it was a fun and interesting way to get the point across and it seems like the students really enjoy it.