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Skills: Engaging students in reading and developing reading for meaning skills, this informational text bundle of lesson plans (4 separate segments 30-60 minutes each) is perfect ...

Description: Engaging students in reading and developing reading for meaning skills, this informational text bundle of lesson plans (4 separate segments 30-60 minutes each) is perfect for your 4th graders!  Using the informational Earth Science text, “Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources: Your Energy Use Explained". 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
  • Practice comparing and contrasting
  • Create new text features to support writing a summary
  • Demonstrate their understanding by completing an illustration of a chosen living thing and how it gets its energy

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

Skills: Practice close reading comprehension techniques Participate in collaborative conversations around details of photographs Identify the topic of a text, retell key details and create diagrams ...

Description: Perfect for English Language Learners, this fully scripted bundle of 3 separate ELA lesson plans based around an Informational Life Science text, “The Parts of a Plant,” by Jennifer Kaul. Your students will:

• Practice close reading comprehension techniques
• Participate in collaborative conversations around details of photographs
• Identify the topic of a text, retell key details and create diagrams of a plant.

CCSS: RI.1.1, RI.1.2, RI.1.4, RI.1.5

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

Skills: Identify key details and determining the meaning of unknown vocabulary using context clues Classify information, infer to create headings in order to write a summary ...

Description: Engaging students in reading and developing reading for meaning skills, this informational text bundle of 4 fully scripted lesson plans (45-60 minutes each) is perfect for your 4th graders!  Using the informational Life Science text, “A Polar Bear’s Body,” by Jennifer Kaul, 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
  • Classify information, infer to create headings in order to write a summary
  • Play a bingo game reinforcing their understanding of the information

CCSS: RI.4.1, RI.4.2, RI.4.3, RI.4.4, RI.4.5, & RI.4.8