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Skills: Participate in an engaging close read of complex text Ask and answer text evidence questions with the use of strategic sentence frames Determine key details ...

Description: Teaching literacy skills through powerful and engaging informational science texts is the way to go!  In this  1 hour fully scripted  Informational Earth Science lesson,  using the text “Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources: Your Energy Use Explained" your students will:

• Participate in an engaging close read of complex text
• Ask and answer text evidence questions with the use of strategic sentence frames
• Determine key details and main idea in collaboration with partners

CCSS: RI.4.1, RI.4.2, RI.4.3, & RI.4.4

Skills: Participate in a series of engaging close reading lessons with many opportunities to develop vocabulary through oral language practice Ask and answer text dependent questions ...

Description: Naming text features...your 5th graders have got this down!  Developing and using them in purposeful and meaningful way is a different story! This 1 hour fully scripted lesson uses the informational earth science text, “Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources: Your Energy Use Explained" so that your students can:

• Participate in a series of engaging close reading lessons with many opportunities to develop vocabulary through oral language practice
• Ask and answer text dependent questions in order to...
  • Identify key details and determining the meaning of unknown vocabulary using context clues
  • Integrate text features in order to create a new "layout" for the text

CCSS: RI.5.1, RI.5.2, RI.5.3, RI.5.4, RI.5.6, & RI.5.8

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  “Space Junk: Earth's Unofficial Ring” 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 and identify effects
• Analyze possible solutions to the problem

CCSS: RI.5.1, RI.5.2, RI.5.3, RI.5.4, RI.5.5

Skills: Participate in a series of engaging close reading lessons with many opportunities to develop vocabulary through oral language practice Ask and answer text dependent questions ...

Description: Finding the key details in order to determine the main idea is one of the most difficult reading skills to teach (and learn). In this fully scripted informational text 1 hour lesson using the text "Space Junk: Earth's Unofficial Ring" your students will:

• Participate in a series of engaging close reading lessons with many opportunities to develop vocabulary through oral language practice
• Ask and answer text dependent questions in order to...
  • Identify key details and determining the meaning of unknown vocabulary using context clues

CCSS: RI.5.1, RI.5.2, RI.5.3, & RI.5.4

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

Description: Understanding the purpose of informational text features happens when our students infer their way to create their own from a text!  In this 3rd Grade fully scripted 1 hour lesson using informational Earth Science text “What is Climate Change?” 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
• Creating a new informational text layout to demonstrate their understanding of the purpose and function of text features

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

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

Description: Teaching reading for meaning with informational text is fun and engaging!  In this 1 hour fully scripted informational Earth Science lesson using the  text “What is Climate Change?” 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
• Determine cause and effect relationships with a focus on effects

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