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“Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources: Your Energy Use Explained” Informational Earth Science: Text Features

4th Grade • 1 Lesson Plan
$2.00
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Quick Facts

Subject: ELA, Informational

Type: 1 Lesson Plan

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 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

Materials Needed:

  • Blank & lined pieces of paper
  • Pencil & crayons/colored pencils
  • Document camera or whiteboard.

Printable Resources: Required:

  • copies of Informational Text: “Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources: Your Energy Use Explained” by Jennifer Kaul (1 per student)
Optional:
  • “Brainstorming Design” graphic organizer (1 per students or project using document camera for students to copy)
   

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

File Type: PDF Document

Lesson Plan Description

Working with an engaging informational text around earth science standards, your 4th graders will practice creating their own new “format” for the text by incorporating purposeful and distinct text features: 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
    • Integrate text features in order to create a new “layout” for the text

The text used in this lessons addresses the NGSS: ESS3.A:

  • Natural Resources Energy and fuels that humans use are derived from natural sources, and their use affects the environment in multiple ways. Some resources are renewable over time, and others are not.

**Purchasing both this 1 hour and the ELA Bundle: “Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources: Your Energy Use Explained” Informational Earth Science Bundle,” will result in duplicate content.