Subject: Informational

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: In this 1 hour fully scripted lesson, your 5th Graders  will practice the art of close reading and the skill of  comparing and contrasting using an engaging 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

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

Skills: Participate in an engaging close read of complex text Ask and answer text evidence questions with the use of strategic sentence frames Determine key details ...

Description: Teaching literacy skills through powerful and engaging informational science texts is the way to go!  In this  1 hour fully scripted  Informational Earth Science lesson,  using the text “Food Chains and Food Webs" your students will:

• Participate in an engaging close read of complex text
• Ask and answer text evidence questions with the use of strategic sentence frames
• Determine key details and main idea in collaboration with partners

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

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