Informational Text
Key Ideas and Details
Standards
Focus Skills
Description
CCSS.ELA- Literacy.RI.4.3
Explain cause-and-effect relationships
Explain cause-and-effect relationships (i.e., explain what happened and why) in a historical, scientific, or technical text by comprehending specific information in the text as well as by identifying individual cue words
CCSS.ELA- Literacy.RI.4.1
Explain an informational text's explicit meaning
Explain the explicit meaning of an informational text based on evidence from the text (e.g., locate details and examples that explain an idea in the text)
CCSS.ELA- Literacy.RI.4.2
Explain main idea and how it is supported
Identify and explain the main idea of an informational text and explain how key details support it
Craft and Structure
CCSS.ELA- Literacy.RI.4.5
Describe organization of an informational text
Describe the organizational structure (e.g., comparison/contrast, cause/effect, problem/solution, sequential or chronological order) of an informational text or passage
CCSS.ELA- Literacy.RI.4.6
Explain the author's purpose
Determine the author's purpose (e.g., to inform, describe, entertain, explain, share feelings) and explain how the reader can determine the purpose
CCSS.ELA- Literacy.RI.4.6
Compare firsthand or secondhand accounts
Compare and contrast focus, emphasis, or information provided in firsthand and secondhand accounts of the same event or topic
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
CCSS.ELA- Literacy.RI.4.8
Recognize difference between fact and opinion
Recognize facts as things that can be proven and opinions as beliefs
CCSS.ELA- Literacy.RI.4.8
Explain how an author supports a claim
Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support a claim
CCSS.ELA- Literacy.RI.4.9
Integrate information from texts on a topic
Integrate information from two nonfiction texts on the same topic into a broader understanding in order to write or speak knowledgeably about the topic
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.10
Read regularly and independently
Read regularly and independently in fourth-grade-appropriate texts for sustained periods of time, increasing speed, stamina, and comprehension
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.10
Describe traits of various informational texts
Describe characteristics of different informational texts including biographies, history books, science books, and how-to texts