Grade Level: 3rd

Skills: Participate in collaborative conversations asking and answering "text" dependent questions with the support of sentence frames Analyze details, make inferences Practice  the skill of comparing ...

Description: Perfect for multilingual students learning English, this  1 hour  fully scripted “Closer Looking” lesson is based on an analysis of photographs.  We learn to infer from pictures first! Students will:

• Participate in collaborative conversations asking and answering "text" dependent questions with the support of sentence frames
• Analyze and draw inferences about photographs of an unknown location
• Produce a "book"; which includes: cause and effect, vocabulary, and key details
• Practice  the skill of comparing and contrasting

CCSS: RI.3.1, RI.3.3, RI.3.7, & SL.3.1, SL.3.2, SL.3.3

Skills: Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames Create headings for the text in order ...

Description: Teaching writing skills through powerful and engaging informational science texts is the way to go!  In this  1 hour fully scripted  Informational Life Science lesson, your students will:

• Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames
• Create headings for the text in order to infer the main ideas
• Write a summary  and produce a creative writing assignment based on text

CCSS: RI.3.1, RI.3.2, RI.3.3, RI.3.4, & RI.3.8

Skills: Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames Practice identifying key details, determining the meaning ...

Description: Engaging readers in literacy skills via science texts is engaging and purposeful! In this 1 hour fully scripted close read  of the Earth Science text  “Winter Survival” your students will:

• Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames
• Practice identifying key details, determining the meaning of unknown vocabulary, and classifying information
• Classify three animal species and how they survive winter using a graphic organizer

CCSS: RI.3.1, RI.3.2, RI.3.3, RI.3.4

Skills: Participate in a collaborative and active close reading lesson by asking and answering questions text dependent questions with the support of sentence frames Use context ...

Description: Using informational text to teach reading and comprehension skills is engaging and fun!  In this 4th Grade Fourth Grade bundle of lesson (4 independent lessons)  based around an Informational Life Science text, “Winter Survival,” by Jennifer Kaul your students will:

• Participate in a collaborative and active close reading lesson by asking and answering questions text dependent questions with the support of sentence frames
• Use context clues to determine meaning of unknown words
• Identify key details and classify information by creating headings
• Write a summary  and produce a creative writing assignment based on text

CCSS: RI.3.1, RI.3.2, RI.3.3, RI.3.4, & RI.3.8