The fiction unit, from our Reading Workshop Curriculum, is coming to a close this week. One of the things that we learned during this unit is that many author's write tales that teach us a message. We learned about themes of perserverance, friendship, courage and so much more. Today each child was asked to draw a picture of one of the books from our unit and to explain the author's message. The firsties worked really hard on their Author's Message papers and I was impressed with their thinking! These will be put into our Reading Response notebooks.