These lessons focus on the skills needed to master the chosen standard and are designed to compliment the companion writing lessons.
These lessons are built to extend the skills taught in the power lessons. The intent is to allow the students to demonstrate their knowledge of the skills needed to master the chosen standard.
Facts and Details
Finding a fact and its supported detail(s) in order to share about an expository topicDiscovering Facts and Details
Using facts and details to "write" an expository textWhat's It All About?
Using details to identify main topicGive Me Three!
Identifying two details to support main topicWhat Does it Mean to Be Green
Using questions to get informationObservation, Information, and Communication
Learning about similarities and differencesAlong Came a Spider
Tackling main ideas and details in informational textI Can Write about Spiders
Writing about informational topicsFacts and Details
Finding a fact and its supporting detail(s) in order to share about an informational topicDiscovering Facts and Details
Using facts and details to “write” an informational paperThese lessons serve as a scaffold of the specific learning targets and move from the foundational level into the mastery level of the standard.
These lessons are forthcoming.
What Does it Mean to Be Green?
Airport
Bats
Be a Friend to Trees
Beans to Chocolate
Big Machines! Big Buildings
Bread, Bread, Bread
Spiders
Carlo Likes Reading
My Map Book
Sea Turtles
Fetch
The Honey Makers
Planting a Rainbow
Oliver's Must-Do List
Bunny Cakes
Put It on the List!
Wallace's Lists
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Not a Box
All about Faces
ish
Dog Loves Drawing
We are in a Book!
Beautiful Oops!
The Pencil
Squiggles: A Drawing Book
the dot
Lines that Squiggle