I love reading books with my students and nonfiction is one of my favorite genres to share with them. We always learn together and grow ourselves with the questions and wonders that remain after the cover is closed. I didn't use a theme or special qualifier for picking my titles. These books just happened to pop into my head when thinking about recent nonfiction we've read and learned from as a class this year in second grade. Here are my titles for today's 2018 Nonfiction 10 for 10:
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| This biography about Grace Hopper and the biography about Margaret Hamilton were both a big part of my Hour of Code week. Both opened the eyes of my second grade students to the role of women in computer science and the hugecontribution both had to making our daily technology accessible to us. |
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| This a new book we investigate for our Mock Caldecott research. Jason Chin is a favorite of mine and the illustrations and information are amazing. If you've every visited the Grand Canyon, you need to read this book. If you ever want to visit, you need to read this book! |
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| Both of these titles are by a new favorite author, Katherine Foy. Here illustrations are absolutely stunning and she's able to make the very graphic aspects of nature and the cycle of life understandable without being too scary for young students. |
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| LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this book. My students and I had so much fun learning about animals - some unknown to us and some surprising facts about a few animals we are very familiar with. |
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| This is a great biography with a very intriguing twist. The illustrations are unique and contribute much to the telling of the story. |
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| In the fall a mother of a student in my class brought her AP Envio. Science students to dissect owl pellets. We used this book to learn more about owls. |
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