Unit 4: informational reading
Students will be able to:
Determine importance and synthesize informational text:
- Preview, predict, and tap their prior knowledge before reading nonfiction texts
- Pause and paraphrase information as they read
- Locate main idea sentences within paragraphs
- Support the main ideas with key details in nonfiction text
- Determine the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary words from the text
Determine text structures and synthesize when reading informational text:
- Recognize descriptive structures, sequential structures, comparison structures, and cause and effect structures and use them to organize thinking
- Use graphic organizers o organize their reading and thinking from informational texts
Readers fit text together to teach others:
- Use topic specific vocabulary words to teach others
- Teach others about a topic they are studying
Nonfiction Text Structures
Readers read narrative informational and hybrid informational texts:
- Distinguish between narrative informational, hybrid informational, and informational text
- Use what they know about characters to study real people
- Use stories and information to uncover the important ideas narrative/hybrid informational text teaches
- Notice if there is an obvious point of view in a text
- Celebrate by sharing all they have learned on a topic, person, or event