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Big Picture Goals
Big Picture Goals
Goal 1: Improve nonfiction/informational text reading skills:
Goal 1: Improve nonfiction/informational text reading skills:
- Sharpen your ability to read more complex nonfiction,
- Focus on your fluency with summarizing texts,
- Use information that is relevant to your point, as text evidence
- Cite the texts accurately, giving credit to your sources
- Reading to identify more than one main idea in the text.
Goal 2: Read a lot of nonfiction!
Goal 2: Read a lot of nonfiction!
In this unit of study, we aim to channel your natural curiosity into informational texts that will deepen your understanding of subjects you are already interested in, AND to extend those interests into new realms of study.
Unit Overview
Unit Overview
Essential Questions
Essential Questions
How can we read to learn intentionally and effectively?
How can we read to learn intentionally and effectively?
As we do this work, how do we learn to tackle more dense nonfiction, synthesizing ideas and details while increasing our knowledge and broadening our interests?
As we do this work, how do we learn to tackle more dense nonfiction, synthesizing ideas and details while increasing our knowledge and broadening our interests?
Bend I:
Bend I:
Bend 2:
Bend 2:
Ratcheting up our nonfiction reading practices to read more complex informational texts
Ratcheting up our nonfiction reading practices to read more complex informational texts
Reading closely, writing and talking to learn about a topic
Reading closely, writing and talking to learn about a topic
Guiding Questions:
- How can I determine more than one central idea across a text?
- How can I use narrative and expository text structures and features as a way to help navigate the ideas and information in a text?
- How can I keep track of many central ideas about a topic while reading across texts, sorting and synthesizing new information as I read it?
Guiding Questions:
- How can I use writing and talk to think through and question what I’m learning?
- How can I re-read closely to be sure I’m understanding complicated concepts?
- How can I analyze the author’s use of craft to help better understand key points about the topic?
Learning Standards
Learning Standards
- RI 6.1: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly and well as inferences drawn from the text.
- RL 6.2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is developed through particular details.
- RI 6.3: Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text.
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