Students in Ms. Fisher’s 3rd grade class at George Mason  spent time reading and exploring nonfiction texts.  They discovered headings in nonfiction text contain key words that give a preview of main ideas they may read about in a section!  3rd graders learned nonfiction texts contain certain features they won’t usually find in fiction books such as:  a table of contents, glossary, bold words, and headers.  Students read their nonfiction texts, then created a shadow puppet using an iPad explaining main ideas of a section in their book.