Unit: Informational Text

Resources

Lessons

1. Characteristics of Informational Texts

   Students will be able to notice specific characteristics of an informational text by looking at multiple examples.

    
2. Headings and Titles

   Students will be able to differentiate between the title of an informational text and the headings. Students will relate the headings back to the main idea or title of the passage.

    
3. Captions and Graphic Aides

   Students will be able to gather information using captions and graphic aides.

    
4. Using the Glossary

   Students will be able to use the glossary to define unknown words in an informational text.

    
5. Text Organization: Chronological Order

   Students will understand that chronological order is a way for author's to organize informational texts.

    
6. Chronological Order Signal Words

   Students will use knowledge of signal words to organize a text chronologically.

    
7. Text Organization: Cause and Effect

   Students will be able to determine cause and effect in a series of sentences.

    
8. Cause and Effect Cue Words

   Students will be able to notice cue words that determine cause and effect. They will also notice cause and effect relationships within informational texts.

    
9. Text Organization: Compare and Contrast

   Students will be able to use a Venn diagram to compare themselves to another person. They will also notice that some writers use compare and contrast to organize informational texts.

    
10. Venn Diagrams: Compare and Contrast

    Students will use a Venn diagram to organize facts in an informational text.

     
11. Text Organization: Main Ideas and Details

    Students will use a web diagram to determine the main idea and details of a paragraph in an informational text.

     
12. Boxes and Bullets: Main Idea

    Students will use a boxes and bullets graphic organizer to find the main idea and details of an informational text.

     
13. Text Organization: Problem and Solution

    Students will be able to notice and record multiple problems in an informational text using a graphic organizer.

     
14. Problem and Solution Part 2

    Students will be able to identify multiple solutions to a problem in an informational text using a graphic organizer.

     
15. Fact and Opinion

    Students will be able to label statements as either facts or opinions.

     
16. Fact and Opinion in an Informational Text

    Students will be able to label facts and opinions in an informational text article.

     
17. Author's Purpose: Persuade

    Students will be able to identify the author's purpose of persuade and give examples of this type of writing.

     
18. Author's Purpose: Inform

    Students will be able to notice when an author's purpose is to inform readers. They will notice characteristics of this style or writing.

     
19. Author's Purpose: Entertain

    Students will be able to notice characteristics of stories that are meant to entertain.

     
20. Determining Author's Purpose

    Students will be able to determine an author's purpose when given different examples of texts.