Using Photos to Add Details

This week, as we begin to wrap up our writing workshop unit writing informational chapter books, we learned one more way that writers add details to their work to better teach their readers: do research to get more information. One way to do research at a first-grade level is to find photos or pictures of our topics and notice all we can in them, and put those details into the words in our book. Students added details to their chapters by studying photos of a leafy sea dragon, a tennis ball, a hockey player, a New York Yankees uniform, a cat, and more. Here we are hard at work, writing, and then sharing aloud, our newly added details.