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Predicting and Gathering Information With Nonfiction Texts

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Title:

 Predicting and Gathering Information With Nonfiction Texts

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Type: Lesson/Unit Plan

Overview:

The reading community recognizes nonfiction as vital to early learners. This concept is relatively new, and most primary teachers have little experience with how to introduce nonfiction to their students and use it as part of the reading curriculum. This lesson supports second-grade teachers in introducing nonfiction to their students and using it for informational purposes. Students develop an understanding of nonfiction through peer interaction and hands-on experiences with books. They use graphic organizers to record their thinking and new learning.

Content Standard(s):
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: K
R3. Expand background knowledge and build vocabulary through discussion, reading, and writing.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
R3.
  • Background knowledge
  • Vocabulary
  • Discussion
Knowledge:
R3. Students know:
  • Relating experiences through discussions, reading, and writing will help build background knowledge and improve vocabulary.
Skills:
R3. Students are able to:
  • Connect new concepts to prior experiences to increase background knowledge through discussions, reading, and writing.
  • Construct the meaning of words through discussions, reading, and writing.
Understanding:
R3. Students understand that:
  • Background knowledge can increase by relating experiences to new ideas, topics, and words while participating in discussions, reading, and writing.
  • Vocabulary will increase by constructing the meaning of words while participating in discussions, reading, and writing.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: K
2. Actively engage in teacher-led reading experiences and collaborative discussions with peers to build background knowledge needed to be successful as they learn to read and, later, read to learn.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
2.
  • Actively engage
  • Teacher-led reading experiences
  • Collaborative discussions
  • Background knowledge
  • Peers
Knowledge:
2. Students know:
  • How to engage in teacher-led reading experiences and collaborative discussions with peers to build background knowledge.
Skills:
2. Students are able to:
  • Build background knowledge by actively engaging in teacher-led reading experiences and collaborative discussions with peers.
Understanding:
2. Students understand that:
  • They need to build background knowledge to be successful as they learn to read and read to learn.
  • They need to actively engage in teacher-led reading experiences and discussions with peers to build their background knowledge.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: K
3. Actively participate in teacher-led choral and shared reading experiences.

Examples: reciting nursery rhymes, songs, poems, stories
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
3.
  • Actively participate
  • Choral reading
  • Shared reading
Knowledge:
3. Students know:
  • How to actively participate in teacher-led choral and shared reading experiences.
Skills:
3. Students are able to:
  • Actively participate in teacher-led choral and shared reading experiences.
Understanding:
3. Students understand that:
  • Actively participating in choral and shared reading activities helps them build their background knowledge and improve their reading fluency, so they can become fluent readers.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: K
22. Use content knowledge built during read-alouds of informational texts by participating in content-specific discussions with peers and/or through drawing or writing.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
22.
  • Content knowledge
  • Read-alouds
  • Informational text
  • Participating
  • Content-specific discussions
  • Peers
  • Drawing
  • Writing
Knowledge:
22. Students know:
  • Content knowledge gained from read-alouds of informational texts.
Skills:
22. Students are able to:
  • Use content knowledge built during read-alouds of informational texts by participating in content-specific discussions with peers and/or through drawing or writing.
Understanding:
22. Students understand that:
  • Their understanding of and appreciation for informational text grows through discussions and active collaboration with others.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: K
30. With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in literary and informational texts.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
30.
  • Ask
  • Answer
  • Key details
  • Literary text
  • Informational text
  • Prompting
  • Support
Knowledge:
30. Students know:
  • Key details in literary and informational texts.
Skills:
30. Students are able to:
With prompting and support,
  • Ask questions about key details in literary and informational texts.
  • Answer questions about key details in literary and informational texts.
Understanding:
30. Students understand that:
  • Text includes key details.
  • After reading a text, knowledge and understanding can be expanded by asking and answering questions.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: K
39. Participate in shared research and writing projects to answer a question or describe a topic.

a. Include information recalled from personal experiences in research and writing projects.

b. Gather information from provided sources for research and writing projects.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
39.
  • Participate
  • Shared research
  • Shared writing projects
  • Answer a question
  • Describe a topic
39a.
  • Include
  • Information
  • Recalled
  • Personal experiences
  • Research projects
  • Writing projects
39b.
  • Gather
  • Information
  • Provided sources
  • Research projects
  • Writing projects
Knowledge:
39. Students know:
  • Research and writing can answer questions or describe a topic.
39a.
  • Information recalled from personal experiences can be added to research and writing projects.
39b.
  • Information gathered from different sources can be added to research and writing projects.
Skills:
39. Students are able to:
  • Work collaboratively with peers and adults in research and writing projects.
  • Use research and writing to answer questions about a topic.
  • Use research and writing to describe a topic.
39a.
  • Recall information from personal experiences.
  • Include information from personal experiences in research and writing projects.
39b.
  • Use strategies to gather information from provided sources to research and write about a topic.
Understanding:
39. Students understand that:
  • Shared research and writing projects can help answer questions or describe a topic.
39a.
  • Information gathered from personal experiences can help to understand and write about a topic.
39b.
  • Gathering information from a variety of sources can help increase their understanding of a topic and improve their research and writing projects.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 1
R3. Expand background knowledge and build vocabulary through discussion, reading, and writing.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
R3.
  • Background knowledge
  • Vocabulary
  • Discussion
Knowledge:
R3. Students know:
  • Relating experiences through discussions, writing, and reading will help build background knowledge and improve vocabulary.
Skills:
R3. Students are able to:
  • Connect new concepts to prior experiences to increase background knowledge through discussions, reading, and writing.
  • Construct the meaning of words through discussions, reading, and writing.
Understanding:
R3. Students understand that:
  • Background knowledge can increase by relating experiences to new ideas, topics, and words while participating in discussions, reading, and writing.
  • Vocabulary will increase by constructing the meaning of words while participating in discussions, reading, and writing.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 1
2. Actively participate in shared reading experiences and collaborative discussions to build background knowledge and learn how oral reading should sound.

Examples: read-alouds, oral dramatic activities
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
2.
  • Participate
  • Shared reading
  • Background knowledge
  • Oral reading
Knowledge:
2. Students know:
  • The process of shared reading experiences and collaborative discussions.
  • Shared reading and collaborative discussions can increase their background knowledge.
  • How fluent oral reading sounds.
Skills:
2. Students are able to:
  • Participate in shared reading and discussions to build background knowledge and learn new information.
  • Describe how oral reading should sound.
Understanding:
2. Students understand that:
  • Actively participating in shared reading experiences and collaborative discussions can build their background knowledge.
  • Listening to others read aloud can help improve their oral reading skills.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 1
17. Use content knowledge built during read-alouds of informational and literary texts by participating in content-specific discussions with peers and/or through drawing and writing.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
17.
  • Content knowledge
  • Read-alouds
  • Informational text
  • Literary text
  • Participating
  • Content-specific discussions
  • Peers
  • Drawing
  • Writing
Knowledge:
17. Students know:
  • Content knowledge can be learned from read-alouds of informational and literary texts.
  • Content knowledge can be shared with others through discussions, drawing, or writing.
Skills:
17. Students are able to:
  • Gain new content knowledge by engaging in read-alouds of informational and literary texts.
  • Participate in discussions with their peers demonstrating their knowledge of content-specific topics.
  • Produce drawings or writing that displays content knowledge learned through read-alouds.
Understanding:
17. Students understand that:
  • They can learn new information by engaging in read-alouds of informational and literary texts.
  • They can demonstrate their understanding of content-specific knowledge through discussions, drawing, or writing.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 1
22. Ask and answer questions about key details in literary and informational texts.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
22.
  • Ask
  • Answer
  • Questions
  • Key details
  • Literary texts
  • Informational texts
Knowledge:
22. Students know:
  • Key details are present in literary and informational text.
Skills:
22. Students are able to:
  • Ask questions about key details in a literary and informational text.
  • Answer questions about key details in a literary and informational text.
Understanding:
22. Students understand that:
  • Literary and informational text include key details that must be understood to comprehend the text.
  • After reading a text, knowledge and understanding can be expanded by asking and answering questions.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 1
42. Participate in shared research and writing projects to answer a question or describe a topic.

a. Recall information from experiences to contribute to shared research and writing projects.

b. Gather information from provided sources.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
42.
  • Participate
  • Shared research projects
  • Shared writing projects
  • Question
  • Describe
  • Topic
42a.
  • Recall information
  • Experiences
  • Contribute
  • Shared research projects
  • Shared writing projects
42b.
  • Information
  • Sources
Knowledge:
42. Students know:
  • Research and writing projects can answer a question or describe a topic.
42a.
  • Information recalled from personal experiences can be used in research and writing projects.
42b.
  • Information can be gathered from a variety of sources.
Skills:
42. Students are able to:
  • Participate in shared research and writing projects.
  • Answer questions about a topic in writing.
  • Describe a topic in writing.
42a.
  • Recall information from previous experiences.
  • Contribute this information to shared research and writing projects.
42b.
  • Use strategies to gather information from provided sources to write about a topic.
Understanding:
42. Students understand that:
  • Shared research and writing projects can help answer questions or describe a topic.
42a.
  • Information gathered from personal experiences can be contributed to research and writing projects.
42b.
  • Information gathered from other sources can be contributed to research and writing projects.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 2
R3. Expand background knowledge and build vocabulary through discussion, reading, and writing.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
R3.
  • Background knowledge
  • Vocabulary
  • Discussion
Knowledge:
R3. Students know:
  • Relating experiences through discussions, writing, and reading will help build background knowledge and improve vocabulary.
Skills:
R3. Students are able to:
  • Connect new concepts to prior experiences to increase background knowledge through discussions, reading, and writing.
  • Construct the meaning of words through discussions, reading, and writing.
Understanding:
R3. Students understand that:
  • Background knowledge can increase by relating experiences to new ideas, topics, and words while participating in discussions, reading, and writing.
  • Vocabulary will increase by constructing the meaning of words while participating in discussions, reading, and writing.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 2
22. Use content knowledge built during read-alouds and independent reading of informational and literary texts by participating in content-specific discussions with peers and/or through writing.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
22.
  • Content knowledge
  • Read-alouds
  • Independent reading
  • Informational text
  • Literary Text
  • Content-specific discussions
  • Writing
Knowledge:
22. Students know:
  • Content knowledge is information learned about a specific subject.
  • Content knowledge can be learned by listening to read-alouds or independently reading.
  • Informational text is nonfiction text, and literary text is fictional.
Skills:
22. Students are able to:
  • Build content knowledge from listening to text read aloud and from independently reading.
  • Use content knowledge learned from read-alouds and independent reading in content-specific discussions with peers.
  • Use content knowledge learned from read-alouds and independent reading in writing.
Understanding:
22. Students understand that:
  • Content-specific discussions with peers can demonstrate the content knowledge they learned through read-alouds or independent reading.
  • They can produce writings that demonstrate knowledge of content-specific information.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 2
30. Read and comprehend literary and informational texts.

a. State and confirm predictions about a text.

b. Use background knowledge to make connections to new text.

c. Draw conclusions based on the text.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
30.
  • Comprehend
  • Literary texts
  • Informational texts
30a.
  • Confirm
  • Predictions
30b.
  • Background knowledge
  • Connections
30c.
  • Draw conclusions
Knowledge:
30. Students know:
  • Comprehension is understanding text that is read.
30a.
  • A prediction is a guess at what they think the story or passage will be about.
30b.
  • Background knowledge will help make connections to text.
30c.
  • Drawing conclusions is taking what they currently know and applying it to what they have just read to develop a new thought or reasoning.
Skills:
30. Students are able to:
  • Read and comprehend literary (fictional) and informational (nonfiction) text.
30a.
  • Share predictions about the text they will read.
  • Confirm predictions as correct or incorrect after reading the text.
30b.
  • Use current background knowledge to make connections to new information presented in text.
30c.
  • Draw conclusions after reading a text.
Understanding:
30. Students understand that:
  • They can read literary and informational texts and use comprehension skills to understand what they have read.
30a.
  • They can demonstrate comprehension of a text by making predictions and confirming if the prediction was correct or incorrect.
30b.
  • Connecting their prior knowledge to new information presented in text can improve their comprehension and retention of newly learned information.
30c.
  • Drawing conclusions from a text demonstrates they comprehended the text and learned new information.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 2
46. Gather and use research to answer questions to complete a research product.

a. Create topics of interest for a research project.

b. Create questions to gather information for a research project.

c. Find information from a variety of sources.

Examples: books, magazines, newspapers, digital media

d. Define plagiarism and explain the importance of using their own words.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
46.
  • Gather
  • Research
  • Questions
46a.
  • Create
  • Topics
  • Research project
46b.
  • Questions
46c.
  • Variety of sources
46d.
  • Plagiarism
Knowledge:
46. Students know:
  • Information must be gathered from a variety of sources, and the information can be used to answer questions.
46a.
  • A topic of interest must be selected before beginning a research project.
46b.
  • Generating questions and finding information to answer those questions is an important component of a research project.
46c.
  • A variety of sources can be used to find information and answer research questions.
46d.
  • Plagiarism is presenting someone else's words or ideas as their own without crediting the source.
Skills:
46. Students are able to:
  • Gather and use the research to answer questions and create a research product.
46a.
  • Generate a list of interesting topics for a research project.
46b.
  • Create questions and gather information to answer those questions to complete a research project.
46c.
  • Find information to answer research questions using a variety of sources, such as books, magazines, newspapers, or digital media.
46d.
  • Define plagiarism.
  • Explain the importance of using their own words in their writing.
Understanding:
46. Students understand that:
  • A research product requires gathering information from a variety of sources and using the research to answer questions.
46a.
  • Creating topics of interest prepares them for the writing process.
  • By creating topics of interest for a research project, they are completing the brainstorming part of a research project.
46b.
  • Asking questions helps get information for their research projects.
  • Creating questions helps guide their research and that questions may be changed or added based on answers to previous questions.
46c.
  • Information can come from a variety of sources.
  • They should use different sources to gather information for a research project.
46d.
  • It is important to use their own words and ideas in writing and/or presentations.
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