- Hi, Massimo.
- Hi.
- What are you writing about here?
- Ice cream.
- So you're writing a nonfiction book?
An All About book about ice cream?
To teach us things about ice cream?
So how's, how'd the writing the go?
- Good.
- What did you do to make a really good ice cream book?
- I taught people facts about it.
- You taught people facts about ice cream?
Okay.
'Cause I did learn a lot of facts
already from this, right?
You taught us they come in different colors.
And you taught us that ice cream come in different flavors.
And that you can eat ice cream in a cone or a...
- Cup.
- A cup, wow.
So you do have a lot of facts about ice cream in your book.
Is there something I could help you
to be an even better nonfiction writer?
What could I teach you?
Something you want a little help with, maybe?
Do you know what that might be?
You're not sure?
You can say you're not sure, it's fine.
Okay, so I'm going to point out something.
I mean, I think you've done a lovely, lovely job
writing this book, Massimo.
You told us in the first page what the book is about, right?
In fact, your title page did that too, Ice Cream.
And then you did give us some lovely, lovely facts
about the different colors, the different flavors.
And that you can put it in a cup or, you know,
I think it was... - Cone.
- Yeah.
See, you told us, three facts about ice cream.
One thing I noticed in this page is you told us
ice cream comes in different colors.
Okay, and over here you told us that ice cream
comes in different flavors.
Something that nonfiction writers do when they write books
is they give us the names of things.
That when you talking about different colors
you can tell people what those colors are, or flavors.
I'm going to show you that in the book, okay?
And show you where you can do it.
And then have you try this.
So, Massimo, I'm going to show you something in this book,
that Gail Gibbons does that's,
that's like what you're doing but she takes it another step
and she gives the names of things.
So, look right here, okay, she had written,
"There are many different kinds of pumpkins."
Just like you said there was a lot of flavors of ice cream,
or a lot of colors, right?
But look what she did in the pictures here, Massimo.
She actually gives us the names of the pumpkins.
Like look at this.
Did you know there's a pumpkin called the Red October?
I didn't know that.
There's a pumpkin, this is a funny one, called the Big Max.
And that's this one right here.
So that's the Red October.
That's the Big Max.
And that's a small Sugar Pie pumpkin.
There's a Connecticut Field.
There's a Jack Be Little pumpkin.
So all of these different kinds of pumpkins.
And you can see they're all different shapes and sizes
and colors, right?
They all have different names.
So when you say things like,
"There're lots of flavors or colors,"
you can give the names in your pictures
just like Gail Gibbons did.
So let's imagine how you could do that.
'Cause I noticed that also
you have some beautiful pictures as well,
that when you said they come in different flavors,
you've got those different flavors there, right?
I can see the picture of the ice cream cones.
And you've also got different colors too, right?
So what you could do is you could point to some
of the ice cream and say, "What color is that?"
Or you could point to these ice creams on this page
about the flavors and say, "What flavors are those?"
And then you could write the word.
Okay?
So why don't you point to one of these different kinds
of ice cream and tell me what kind of flavor it is.
What's that?
What flavor is that one?
- Chocolate.
- That's chocolate.
So where could you write the word chocolate?
Do you think, so we'd know that that's chocolate?
You could put it in there.
It's kind of, you know,
Gail Gibbons did it kind of next to it, right?
So maybe you could put it right out here
so we know that's chocolate.
Point to another one that you know the name of, the flavor.
- Vanilla.
- It's vanilla.
Where could we write the word vanilla?
Yeah, right over here would be a good idea, right?
Because that's a vanilla ice cream.
So you could do that.
You could write those, give the names of the ice,
the flavors right there
and teach us just like Gail Gibbons did.
Okay?
And I think you could do the same thing on this page.
You could write down the colors of the ice cream too.
Ice cream does come in a lot of colors.
So how 'about you try this.
How 'about I give you the pencil.
I'm going to finish the conference then you can do it, okay?
And ask you to write the word chocolate right there,
or vanilla right there so we learn those flavors
by looking at the picture.
Okay? Okay.
So you're going to try that right now and then
we'll see how you do in a couple minutes, okay?