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Skills: 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 ...

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
  • Create new text features to support writing a summary
  • Demonstrate their understanding by completing an illustration of a chosen living thing and how it gets its energy

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

Skills: Participate in collaborative conversations asking and answering "text" dependent questions with the support of sentence frames Analyze details, make inferences Practice  the skill of comparing ...

Description: Perfect for multilingual students learning English, this  1 hour  fully scripted “Closer Looking” lesson is based on an analysis of photographs.  We learn to infer from pictures first! Students will:

• Participate in collaborative conversations asking and answering "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
• Practice  the skill of comparing and contrasting

CCSS: RI.3.1, RI.3.3, RI.3.7, & SL.3.1, SL.3.2, SL.3.3

Skills: Participate in guided, collaborative conversations using sentence frames Identify the topic of a text  and retell key details Create diagrams of a plant.

Description: Perfect for English Language Learners, this fully scripted ELA lesson plan is based around an Informational Life Science text, “The Parts of a Plant,” by Jennifer Kaul. Your students will:

• Participate in guided, collaborative conversations using sentence frames
• Identify the topic of a text  and retell key details
• Create diagrams of a plant.

CCSS: RI.1.2 & RI.1.5

Skills: Practice close reading comprehension techniques Participate in collaborative conversations around details of photographs and text to determine meanings of unknown words

Description: Perfect for English Language Learners, this fully scripted ELA lesson plan is based around an Informational Life Science text, “The Parts of a Plant,” by Jennifer Kaul. Your students will:

• Practice close reading comprehension techniques
• Participate in collaborative conversations with sentence frames to determine meanings of unknown words

CCSS: RI.1.4

Skills: Practice close reading comprehension techniques Participate in collaborative conversations around details of photographs Identify the topic of a text, retell key details and create diagrams ...

Description: Perfect for English Language Learners, this fully scripted bundle of 3 separate ELA lesson plans based around an Informational Life Science text, “The Parts of a Plant,” by Jennifer Kaul. Your students will:

• Practice close reading comprehension techniques
• Participate in collaborative conversations around details of photographs
• Identify the topic of a text, retell key details and create diagrams of a plant.

CCSS: RI.1.1, RI.1.2, RI.1.4, RI.1.5

Skills: Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames Create headings for the text in order ...

Description: Teaching writing skills through powerful and engaging informational science texts is the way to go!  In this  1 hour fully scripted  Informational Life Science lesson, your students will:

• Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames
• Create headings for the text in order to infer the main ideas
• Write a summary  and produce a creative writing assignment based on text

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