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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 ...

Description: Engaging students in reading and developing reading for meaning skills, this informational text bundle of lesson plans (4 separate segments 30-60 minutes each) is perfect for your 4th graders!  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
  • Practice comparing and contrasting
  • Integrate text features in order to create a new "layout" for the text
  • Create a crossword puzzle demonstrating their understanding of the information

CCSS: RI.4.1, RI.4.2, RI.4.3, RI.4.4, RI.4.5, & RI.4.8

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 ...

Description: Naming text features...your 5th graders have got this down!  Developing and using them in purposeful and meaningful way is a different story! This 1 hour fully scripted lesson uses the informational earth science text, “Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources: Your Energy Use Explained" so that your students can:

• 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

CCSS: RI.5.1, RI.5.2, RI.5.3, RI.5.4, RI.5.6, & RI.5.8

Skills: Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames Practice identifying key details, determining the meaning ...

Description: Engaging readers in literacy skills via science texts is engaging and purposeful! In this 1 hour fully scripted close read  of the Earth Science text  “Space Junk: Earth's Unofficial Ring” your students will:

• Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames
• Practice identifying key details, determining the meaning of unknown vocabulary, and classifying information
• Classify and identify effects
• Analyze possible solutions to the problem

CCSS: RI.5.1, RI.5.2, RI.5.3, RI.5.4, RI.5.5

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 ...

Description: Finding the key details in order to determine the main idea is one of the most difficult reading skills to teach (and learn). In this fully scripted informational text 1 hour lesson using the text "Space Junk: Earth's Unofficial Ring" 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

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

Skills: Participate in a collaborative and active close reading lesson by asking and answering questions text dependent questions with the support of sentence frames Use context ...

Description: Using informational text to teach reading and comprehension skills is engaging and fun!  In this 5th Grade Fourth Grade bundle of lesson (4 independent lessons)  based around an Informational Life Science text, “Space Junk: Earth's Unofficial Ring,” by Jennifer Kaul 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
• Use context clues to determine meaning of unknown words
• Classify information and create a new layout for an informational text with a focus on text features

CCSS: RI.5.1, RI.5.2, RI.5.3, RI.5.4, RI.5.5, RI.5.6, & RI.5.8

Skills: Participate in a collaborative and active close reading lesson by asking and answering questions text dependent questions with the support of sentence frames Creating a ...

Description: Understanding the purpose of informational text features happens when our students infer their way to create their own from a text!  In this 3rd Grade fully scripted 1 hour lesson using informational Earth Science text “What is Climate Change?” 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
• Creating a new informational text layout to demonstrate their understanding of the purpose and function of text features

CCSS: RI.3.1, RI.3.2, RI.3.3, RI.3.4, & RI.3.8