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Reading Informational Text

Goal:

Students will pursue nonfiction topics of interest and use text features to enhance their comprehension

Students will identify the main idea and supporting information in their nonfiction texts

Students will notice when they have not understood and will use strategies to repair comprehension

Students will demonstrate understanding by synthesizing nonfiction text information and will articulate their thinking with their reading partners or clubs

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Readers Reflect On What You Read

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Today, Readers, I will teach you how to reflect about what learn and explain your thinking.

Why do we do this?

We do this to help us make connections with what we read.

We do this so we have a deeper understanding of the topic.

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Chili peppers are fruits!

Many people think that chili peppers are vegetables, but I know they are fruits because of their seeds!

What Did I Learn?

What Is My Thinking?

Watch me do this with Chili Peppers: Feel the Heat.

Use Sentence Starters to Push Our Thinking

3. They have become more popular throughout the years.

2. They start out as flowers.

The important thing about this is that once people start eating something a lot, they become addicted and it becomes popular.

To add on, most fruits start out as flowers.

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Notebook time!

Grab your Reading Notebooks!

Today, Readers, you will make a T-Chart Chart and practice with “You Wouldn’t Want to Sail with Christopher Columbus.” Before you get started, MAKE YOUR CHART.

Steps:

Go to what you read for homework last night.

Think and Write about what you learned in the 1st Column.

Use the sentence starters and write what you think in the 2nd Column.

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