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“The Mendenhall Glacier” Informational: Synthesizing Photographs & Text

5th Grade • 1 Lesson Plan
$2.00
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Quick Facts

Subject: ELA, Informational

Type: 1 Lesson Plan

Skills:

  • Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames
  • Use context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words and analyze for key details
  • Write a "book" that demonstrates their understanding of cause & effect and key details from the text

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:

  • Copies of informational text (1 copy per student) -or- display on a document camera
  • Pictures (if technology is not available, color copies of the pictures are needed)

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

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 1-1.5 hour lesson plan scaffolds students to infer by beginning with pictures.  Remember, a picture is worth a thousand words!  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
  • Analyze and draw inferences about photographs of an unknown location
  • Produce a “book”; which includes: cause and effect, vocabulary, and key details

**Purchasing both this 1 hour and the ELA Bundle: “The Mendenhall Glacier” Informational Bundle,” will result in duplicated content.