In this unit students will identify the main topic of an informational text and retell the key details to support the main topic. Student will use both the text and illustrations to retell information. Students will make connections between two events. By the end of the unit students will compose an informative/explanatory piece on a topic supported by facts and information gathered from illustrations.
Learning Goal
Students will practice identifying main topic and retelling key details to deepen their understanding. Students will also further their understanding on how to make connections between the key details from the text and illustrations. RI.1.2 Scale RI.1.3 Scale RI.3.7 Scale
Students will understand how to write an informative piece that names the topic and supplies key details on the topic. W.1.2 Scale / Essential Question
- Why is identifying the main topic from the text important?
- How do readers retell informational text?
- How can making connections help understand informational text?
- How do you describe the connection between two events?
- How can illustrations help me understand information?
Published Product for Unit 8
After reading The Story of Martin Luther King Jr., write an informative piece to explain what caused Martin to want to make changes in his community. Use what you learned about the unfair rules, the key details from the text and story illustrations to support your writing.
Focus Writing Standard
LAFS.1.W.1.2 (DOK 3) Write informative text in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure.
- Identify an informative/explanatory text.
- Select a topic for an informative/ explanatory writing.
- Determine supporting facts about a topic.
- Determine an appropriate closure.
- Write an informative/explanatory text, naming a topic.
- Write an informative/explanatory text, supplying facts.
- Write an informative/explanatory text, providing a sense of closure.
Reading Standards
LAFS.1.RI.1.2 (DOK 2) Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
- Identify the main topic of a text.
- Retell key details of a text.
- Identify the key details of a text.
2nd: Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
LAFS.1.RI 1.3 (DOK 2) Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
- Identify key details in an informational text.
- Associate details with an individual, event or idea.
- Describe the connection / relationship between the details within an informational text.
- Describe the connection between 2 pieces of information.
2nd: Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.
LAFS.1.RL.3.7 (DOK 2) Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.
- Identify details and illustrations in a text.
- Identify key ideas in a text.
- Know how to describe ideas.
- Discern key ideas in a text.
- Describe key ideas in a text, using reference to illustrations and details.
2nd: Explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text.
Phonics
Skill: Long vowel skill 3 &4 Lesson: 36 (When a vowel is at the end of a syllable it says its long sound)
Skill: Long vowel skill 4 Lesson: 37 (Silent e at the end of a word makes the middle vowel say its long sound)
Literary Texts
Teach and Model
Choose a book from your school or classroom library about Martin Luther King, Jr. There are many biographies in your Social Studies little book series. Suggestions:
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Harriet Tubman
- A Picture book of George Washington
President Abraham Lincoln
S.S. little book series
*Students should interact with the selected texts multiple times to master the three focus reading standards within this unit. PLC’s should collaborate to determine the order of instruction and strategies that support the learning goal. / Literary Tasks
LDC K-1 Template Tasks
LAFS.1.RI.1.2 (DOK 2)After reading, ______, work with a partner towrite an informative piece identifying the main idea and retelling the key details. Use the illustrations to support your writing.
LAFS.1.RI. 1.3 (DOK 2) After reading ______facilitate a discussion where students make connections between the person’s life events and becoming a leader. Support the discussion by using key details and photographs from the text as evidence. (Cause/effect)
LAFS.1.RI. 1.3 (DOK 2)After reading The Story of Martin Luther King Jr., write 3-4 sentence describing the connection between Martin’s experiences and the student’s experiences.
LAFS.1.RI.3.7 (DOK 2)After reading The Story of Martin Luther King, Jr., work in a group to answer the following questions: What do the illustrations tell us? How does it give us an even better understanding that the text alone can? Use the illustrations to talk back through the key ideas.
LAFS.1.RI.3.7 LAFS.1.RI.1.2 (DOK 2) After listening to one of the suggested books, make a chart titled “What the words say” and “What the illustrations tell”, work with a partner to identify and describe key details using text and illustrations to support your answer.
*The tasks provided are a sampling therefore additional tasks would be required to ensure adequate practice and deepening of knowledge to ensure mastery of the focus standards.
Higher Order Questions Link to Webb’s DOK Guide
*Question stems should be utilized to create text dependent questions to encourage close reading, speaking, listening, and writing throughout the unit.
LAFS.1.RI.1.2 (DOK 2)
- Tell me what we can learn about from this text?
- What is this book mostly about? How do you know?
- What are the important details about _____in the text?
- Can you retell the story to a friend?
- What were the important details that your partner needs to know?
How are ______and ______connected in this text? / LAFS.1.RI.3.7 (DOK 2)
- How do illustrations help us understand the events in the story?
- Describe details from illustrations.
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