3. Student Learning Map

  • Topic:07: Text Structures
  • Subject(s):English Language Arts
  • Days:10
  • Grade(s):4
Key Learning:

Knowledge of a text structure helps the reader better understand the text. Each text structure suggests questions that a reader might ask before reading and answers after completing the passage.

Unit Essential Question(s):
 
 

How are text structures organized to make sense of information for readers and writers?

   
Concept:

Types of Text Structures

Concept:

Interpreting Text

Concept:

Procedural Information

Lesson Essential Question(s):

How do readers use signal words to identify text structures?

(ET)

How and why do readers use graphic organizers for chunking and clarifying information?

(A)

How do readers use text features to organize information, follow multi-step directions, and create a report?

(ET)
Lesson Essential Question(s):

How do readers use graphic organizers to write summaries?

(A)

How do visual aids provide information that will help readers understand what they are reading?

(A)

What criteria is used to choose the best visual aid for sharing information?

(ET)
Lesson Essential Question(s):

How do readers read and interpret procedures and instructions in texts?

(A)

How do authors effectively write procedures and instructions for readers to follow?

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Vocabulary:

visual aids, criteria

Vocabulary:

procedures

Additional Information:

Polk County Schools

Curriculum Map/Monthly Focus Calendar

Reading Comprehension Skill Sequence

February: Inference

March: Fact/Opinion

Embedded throughout the year:

*Reference and Research

*Vocabulary

*Summarizing

Harcourt Trophies

  • Week 24, February 22 - 26, 2010, Lead the Way: Community Ties - "Saguaro Cactus" by Paul and Shirley Berquist
  • Week 25, March 1 - 5, 2010, Lead the Way: New Lands - "The Gold Rush" by Bobbie Kalman
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    Acquisition Lesson:

    Extending Thinking Lesson:

    Vocabulary Report

    • text structures -

      the way a text is organized, i.e. (compare/contrast, cause/effect, sequencing)

    • visual aids -

      charts, tables, graphs, or other graphics that support text

    • procedures -

      a series of steps followed in a regular order

    • criteria -

      a standard on which a judgment may be based

    • chunking -

      breaking text into managable pieces