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Unit 2: Becoming Experts- Reading Nonfiction
Unit 2: Becoming Experts- Reading Nonfiction
Essential Questions:
Essential Questions:
How can you think harder and grow your knowledge about nonfiction texts?
What is the lingo of a topic?
How do you read across a topic to compare and contrast?
Priority Standards:
Priority Standards:
Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.
Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 2 topic or subject area.
Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.
Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe
Explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text.
Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic.
By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 2-3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to clarify comprehension, gather additional information, or deepen understanding of a topic or issue.
Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences.
Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification. (See grade 2 Language standards 1 and 3 here for specific expectations.)
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 2 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.
Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using adjectives and adverbs to describe (e.g., When other kids are happy that makes me happy).
Supporting Standards:
Supporting Standards:
Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text.
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
ELA Learning Expectations:
ELA Learning Expectations:
Curiosity-The desire to know more about the world.
Openness-The willingness to consider ways of being and thinking in the world.
Engagement-A sense of investment and involvement in learning.
Creativity-The ability to use novel approaches for generating, investigating and representing ideas.
Persistence-The ability to sustain interest in and attention to short-and long-term projects.
Responsibility-The ability to take ownership of one's actions and understand the consequences of those actions for oneself and others.
Flexibility-The ability to adapt to situations, expectations, or demands.
Metacognition-The ability to reflect on ones own thinking as well as on the individual and cultural process used to construct knowledge.
National Council of Teachers of English & National Writing Project (2011)
Concepts & Skills:
Concepts & Skills:
Students will be able to:
Bend I: Thinking Hard and Growing Knowledge
pay attention to details to grow knowledge of a topic
ask questions
put details of the text together and ask: "What is this book teaching me?"
preview all the different parts of the book and think: "How does this book go?"
Bend II: Learning the Long of a Topic
generate a list of key words they expect to find in the text
use text features to find and understand keywords
unlock the meaning of unknown keywords by using the whole page and everything they already know about the topic
use persistence and patience to "play around" with working out keywords
reread text like an expert by scooping keywords and reading parts more smoothly to grow more knowledge of the topic
move beyond just learning keywords to using them to think and talk like an expert on that topic
Bend III: Reading Across a Topic
read many books on a topic and think about how they all go together
add information from different books together to grow knowledge across books
think and rethink about how information from different books are connected
look closely and different texts to see how they are the same and different
retell the topic using new keywords and information added together from different books
prepare to teach a topic by marking important parts of the text, practicing what to say, and what voice to use in order to get people to listen and learn a lot
teach their topic to others by sharing information and asking questions about the things they taught
Instructional Strategies:
Instructional Strategies:
Readers Workshop: Mini-lesson, independent reading practice , 1:1 reading conferences, small group instruction, share
Guided reading groups, working on fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, word work, written response.
Partner reading/Turn & Talk
Fundations Lessons
Assessments:
Assessments:
Student Goal Setting/Assessing
Running Records-TRC
Constructive Response
Stop and Jot
Exit Slips
Checklists
Resources:
Resources:
Lucy Calkins Reading Units of Study- Grade 2
Leveled Library
Fundations
Flying Start Paired Leveled Texts for Guided Reading Groups
Technology:
Raz-Kids
Tumblebooks
Anchor Texts: Tigers by Laura Marsh; Amazing Animals-Tigers by Valerie Bodden
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