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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: Perfect for multilingual students learning English, this 1 hour fully scripted lesson is full of scaffolds and supports to encourage the development of strong collaborative discussion habits.  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 and text features
  • Write a summary
  • Demonstrate understanding of the information with a Bingo review game

CCSS: RI.4.1, RI.4.2, RI.4.3 & RI.5.1, RI.5.2, RI.5.3

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 1 hour interactive fully scripted close read of the fable "The Crow and the Pitcher", 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 synthesize, summarize and infer the purpose of this fable
• Create a graphic novel to demonstrate their understanding of the main events and defend their interpretation of the moral/lesson

CCSS: RL.4.1, RL.4.2, RL.4.3, RL.4.4

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 ...

Description: Perfect for multilingual students learning English, this 4th Grade 1 hour  fully scripted “Closer Looking”  and close reading lesson is based on an analysis of photographs and text.  We learn to infer from pictures first!  Your students will:

• 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

CCSS: RI.4.1, RI.4.2, RI.4.3, RI.4.4

Skills: Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames in order to... Practice using context clues ...

Description:

• Integrating science standards and learning into the teaching of reading is the way to go! In this 4th Grade fully scripted 1 hour lesson based an informational text "The Mendenhall Glacier".  Your students will:
  • Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames in order to...
  • Practice using context clues to determine meaning of unknown words
  • Synthesize key details in the text
  • Determine causes & effects
  • Create a visual comparison of glaciers and ice cubes

CCSS: RI.4.1, RI.4.2, RI.4.3, RI.4.4

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: Developing thoughtful, purposeful close reading lessons can be challenging!  We did the work for you!  Based on an informational text on Native Americans, in this bundle of  4 fully scripted lessons, your 4th graders 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
  • Write a summary
  • Demonstrate understanding of the information with a Bingo review game

CCSS: RI.4.1 RI.4.2, RI.4.3, RI.4.4, RI.4.5 & 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: Teaching writing skills through powerful and engaging informational texts is the way to go!  In this  1 hour fully scripted  informational text lesson 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

CCSS: RI.4.5 & RI.5.5