• that non-fiction books have text features 
  
  • Table of contents
  • Headings
  • Text boxes
  • Labels
  • Glossary
  • Index
• We can get our brains ready to learn from non-fiction books by taking a preview

Writing: We have been learning how to write teaching books by ...

• thinking of what we are experts on and what we know
• stating facts not opinions
• adding our own text features

Math: We have been learning ...

• to make change
• to use the number line to add and subtract 
• to solve 2 rule frame and arrow problems
• to solve 2 digit story problems