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Analyzing Key Ideas and Details in Nonfiction

Unit Plan

Analyzing Key Ideas and Details in Nonfiction

Objectives

In this unit, students will explore and create meaning from nonfiction texts. Students will:

  • make predictions when reading nonfiction.
  • make inferences when reading nonfiction.
  • explore and identify the use of facts and opinions in nonfiction.

Essential Questions

How do strategic readers create meaning from informational and literary text?
How does interaction with text provoke thinking and response?
What is this text really about?
  • How do strategic readers create meaning from informational and literary text?
  • What is this text really about?
  • How does interaction with the text provoke thinking and response?

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Formative Assessment

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    Multiple-Choice Items

    1. What inference can you make from this statement?

    The house smelled like banana pancakes when I woke up this morning.

    A

    My mom is making chocolate chip cookies.

    B

    We are going to a pancake restaurant for breakfast.

    C

    My dad is making banana pancakes for breakfast.

    D

    My parents are watching a TV show about making pancakes.

    2.   Which of these statements is a fact?

    A

    Green shoes are the best.

    B

    I think ants are busy little creatures.

    C

    The book with the picture of the horse on the cover is the most interesting.

    D

    Not all frogs live in water.

     

     

    Multiple-Choice Answer Key

    1. C

    2. D

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     


    Performance Assessment:

    Have students read The Story of Jeans by Elizabeth Austin. Learning A-Z, 2007. The text is available at 5mp.eu/fajlok/csernok/raz_lm10_storyofjeans_www.5mp.eu_.pdf You may choose a different book to meet the need of text complexity for your students. Give students the Performance Assessment to complete (L-3-4_Performance Assessment.docx).

     

    Performance Assessment Scoring Rubric:

    Points

    Description

    3

    Student has included at least three of the following requirements:

    • one prediction about the book with text evidence to back it up
    • one inference with examples from the text and from his/her experiences to back it up
    • one fact from the book with evidence to support it
    • one opinion from the book with an explanation of how s/he knows it is an opinion

    2

    Student has included at least two of the requirements.

    OR

    Student has included all requirements with little evidence.

    1

    Student has included one of the requirements.

    0

    Student has not included any of the requirements.

    OR

    Student has not attempted to answer any of the questions.

     

Final 05/01/2013
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