From our class independent reading immersion and close study of chosen ABC Informational Texts we've created this noticings chart of the ABC informational text genre.

ABC Informational Texts Noticings Chart for Amber McDonald's Second Grade

Noticings for ABC Books

• Each page has a specific letter and things to describe it
• goes in order; makes sense
• pictures on each page to match the letter and word
• sometimes it rhymes
• some books had alliteration
• repeating line
• one sounded like a lyric to a song
• adjectives 
• interesting topics
• had to have a sentence with each letter to make it informational 

*ABC Informational Text:  World War II Unit: Kimberly Barnette's class

The students worked in groups on a noticings chart for ABC books, and then we came together and created a class noticings chart:

• in an ABC order for organization
• full of illustrations for students to understand or help explain 
• Letters - font size - to catch the readers' eye
• side bar - informative / full of facts
• text structure 
• kid friendly sentence with each word
• flow - rhythem (sometimes)

ABC Noticings Chart for Ms. Compton's Class

Alliterations

Letters on each page begin with a certain letter

The same topic is used throughout the book.

Some of the books have more information about the topic.

 It makes the alphabet

Goes in a certain order

Illustrations match what is happening in the sentence.

 Martha Vest's ABC Unit Project 

Noticing Chart done with students

My students noticed the following things from the ABC BOOKS we used-

-one letter per page or per 2 pages

-large colorful photos or illustrations

-Very large font

-often only one sentence

-occasionally a paragraph or two per page

-often humorous

-carefully chosen words and pictures for big effect