Taking a closer look at Text Features

 This week in my classroom we are studying money. When we teach kindergarten students new things they are so excited! Books are a great way to introduce new concepts, even in math, science and history. 

For my diverse learners there are many different types of texts about money to choose from. This first text I found, Follow the Money! is a very fun story about the adventure that a coin has during one day. I think that an ELL student would love the pictures and plot of the story. I think that they might have a hard time with the fast pace of the story. This coin in on the move and he gets traded between many different merchants, store owners and even put into a laundry machine. I decided to save this text until the end of the unit. 

   This text is a non-fiction text about money. It is a much different approach to teaching about coins. It shows each coin on the page and tells about the details of the different coins. It has big pictures and shows the details of the coins in the pictures. It also shows kids and adults holding the money. 









This is an example of a page from the text, Sorting Money. I think that this will be a great text to introduce students to the different types of money. It will help to front-load students with all of the information through out the unit. There is a lot of difficult vocabulary in this text, but we can go back and talk about each coin in detail during the unit. 

 This book will be a fun story to read at the end of our unit. I think that I can even make a game or center to show all of the different places that quarter visits. The students will have so much fun re-telling the story.