Nonfiction Units
Students complete two nonfiction units throughout the school year. These focus on high-interest topics and utilize a multitude of nonfiction sources. The units are Bat Bonanza and Winter Wonders.
*Nonfiction texts/standards are also incorporated into each novel study through connecting topics.*
Overview
Summarizing
Text Features
Text Structures
Main Idea/Details
Student Objectives: "I Can"
I can summarize nonfiction texts.
I can identify text features and explain their purpose.
I can identify text structures and explain their purpose.
I can determine the main idea of a text and provide supporting details.
Standards
4.RN.1 - Read and comprehend a variety of nonfiction within a range of complexity appropriate for grades 4-5. By the end of grade 4, students interact with texts proficiently and independently at the low end of the range and with scaffolding as needed at the high end.
4.RN.2.1 - Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what a text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
4.RN.2.2 - Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.
4.RN.3.1 - ents and Organization 4.RN.3.1 Apply knowledge of text features to locate information and gain meaning from a text (e.g., charts, tables, graphs, headings, subheadings, font/format).
4.RN.3.2 - Describe the organizational structure (e.g., chronological, problem-solution, comparison/contrast, procedural, cause/effect, sequential, description) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.
Student Resources
SuperScience magazine
Blooket
EdPuzzle
Google Apps
Interactive Notebook Materials
Baamboozle
Word Wall
Reading Counts