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“The Mendenhall Glacier” Informational Text 4th Grade Bundle

4th Grade • Lesson Plan Bundle
$6.00
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Quick Facts

Subject: ELA, Informational

Type: Lesson Plan Bundle

Skills:

  • Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames
  • Brainstorm, plan and write their own informational "book" based on causes & effects
  • Participate in a science connection activity
  • Write a Haiku poem based on glaciers and ice cubes

Materials Needed:

  • Blank pieces of white paper (2 per student)
  • Lined paper
  • Pencils, crayons
  • Document camera/chart paper/ or whiteboard (used for examples)

Printable Resources: Required:

  • student copies of the informational texts: "The Mendenhall Glacier" and "Thermal Expansion" (1 copy of each per student)
  • 1 copy of pictures from the document (color copy if possible)

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

File Type: PDF Document

Lesson Plan Description

Engaging students in reading and developing reading for meaning skills is a foundational goal for 3rd graders. This bundle of 4 lessons includes “closer looking” and close reading of an included informational text “The Mendenhall Glacier”.  Your students will:

  • Segment 1: collaborate with partners in order to analyze and draw inferences about photographs of an unknown location
  • Segment 2: students will produce a “book”; which includes: cause and effect, vocabulary, and key details
  • Segment 3: analyze a second text source to continue their creation of a book which includes: cause and effect, vocabulary, and key details.
  • BONUS- Segment 4: create a visual comparison of glaciers and ice cubes and write a Haiku poem that captures the intent of the text.

These lessons can be taught over the span of a half day or you can use the lessons independently, broken up over several days.