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“The Mendenhall Glacier” Informational: Synthesizing Photographs & Text
5th Grade • 1 Lesson Plan
$2.00
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.