“The Mendenhall Glacier” Informational: Synthesizing Photographs & Text

4th 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.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 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.