Unit: Looking at Text Features
Unit Description
Lessons
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Captions
Resources: 3 Students will be able to use captions as factual information about a passage to answer questions about a passage. |
4,745
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Introducing Text Features
Resources: 2 Students will be able to define and identify the different types of text features. |
18,710
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Using Diagrams
Resources: 3 Students will be able to create and answer questions based on diagrams. |
2,521
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Text Feature Project
Students will be able to create a non-fiction project that highlights the different types and examples of text features. |
6,386
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Maps
Resources: 5 Students will be able to identify a main idea of a map, locate maps, and answer questions based on maps. |
3,387
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Subheadings and Main Ideas
Resources: 1 Students will be able to create a subheading, turn a subheading into a main idea sentence, and give details to support their main idea reasoning. |
8,062
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Text Features Lead to Strong Predictions
Resources: 2 Objective: Students will be able to utilize text features of non-fiction texts to make predictions about non-fiction text passages or books. |
11,597
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Non-Fiction Feature Wheels
Resources: 1 Objective: Students will be able to utilize text features of non-fiction texts to make predictions about non-fiction text passages or books. |
5,067
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Using Pictures as Captions to make Predictions
Objective: Students will be able to utilize pictures and captions to make predictions about non-fiction texts. |
3,679
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Looking at Tables, Pictures, and Diagrams
Resources: 1 Students will be able to look at pictures, diagrams, and charts to define and determine their importance as text features. |
5,220
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Looking at Titles, Headings, and Captions
Resources: 1 Students will be able to identify the headings, titles, and captions define them, show examples, and relate to why they are important. |
12,425
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Looking at Table of Contents, Glossary, and Index
Resources: 1 Objective: Students will be able to identify text features, their importance, and provide an example of them. |
10,886
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Using Timelines to Order Events
Resources: 1 Objective: Readers sort information from a text by looking at the timeline and asking themselves, “What happened first?” |
6,459
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Using Recipes to Sequence
Resources: 8 Objective: Students will be able to determine the sequence or order of a recipe by breaking apart a recipe that has no steps and rewriting the recipe with steps. |
35,605
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Sorting and Defining Terms
Resources: 3 Objective: Students will be able to identify all of the terms by finding examples of each non-fiction literary term. |
2,033
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Focusing on Graphs and Charts
Objective: Readers get information from graphs by looking at the title and labels and asking themselves, “What information is the graph going to tell me?” |
2,092
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Teaching Non-Fiction Labels
Resources: 2 Objective: Students will be able to identify different examples of informational text by labeling the features on examples of non-fiction text passages. |
9,579
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Unit Resources
| No resources at this time. |
