Enduring Understandings

Readers understand that illustrations in literary texts and specific features in informational texts can help them understand what they read. 

Writers understand that using multiple sources makes research-based writing stronger. 

Learners understand that a person’s life story can reveal big ideas about historical events. 

Essential Questions: "Knows"

How do readers use illustrations and text features to better understand what they read?

How do writers gather ideas from different sources?

Module Goals: "Dos"

Readers will explain how illustrations and text features help them make better sense of what they read. 

Writers will create a biographical sketch using multiple sources. 

Learners will explain how a person’s life story can reveal big ideas about historical events. 

Evidence of Learning: PBA

Informative/Explanatory Task: Write a biographical sketch Children will research an American who did something special to help the United States. The research should focus on the contributions he or she made to the United States.