In this unit students will:
Analyze and compare how structures differ from text to text based on the author's purpose.
Recognize and analyze print and graphic features and their purpose in a text and utilize them to make and confirm predictions to support understanding.
Recognize and evaluate specific details of the text to determine key ideas that support the author's message/central idea.
Evaluate the details in an informational text in order to retell, paraphrase or summarize while maintaining meaning and logical order.
Acquisition
Students will know…
Informational text presents information in order to explain, clarify, and/or educate.
The main topic or message of an informational text is the central idea.
Evidence includes the supporting, valid, and relevant details, facts, or information that supports an inference, idea, or proposition.
Text/graphic features (sections, tables, graphs, timelines, bullets, numbers, bold, pronunciation guides, diagrams and italicized font) are all the components of a text that help convey meaning.
An author uses the pattern or structure to construct and organize ideas for the audience (description, sequential order, chronological order, problem/solution, cause/effect and compare/contrast).
Authors choose specific text structures for a purpose.
Students will be skilled at…
Recognizing and identifying the unique characteristics of informational text.
Identifying the central idea of text.
Using evidence to support the central idea.
Using text/graphic features to make predictions and gain information.
Recognizing the way an informational text is structured (description, sequential order, chronological order, problem/solution, cause/effect and compare/contrast).
Explaining how text structure contributes to an author’s purpose.
Make Meaning
Essential Questions:
Students will keep considering…
How does knowing the characteristics of a text impact a reader’s understanding?
How can language and purpose impact a reader?
How can using strategies improve comprehension?
Enduring Understandings:
Students will understand that…
Elements and structures of text help us make meaning.
Readers are impacted by the language and purpose of text.