Informational Text Independent Reading

My Reading
Independent book choice / Text Element
(strengthening understanding)
Explain how different text features strengthened your understanding of the text. / Word Skills
(increasing vocabulary)
Record, illustrate and define new vocabulary. / Thinking
(evaluating)
Write three interesting facts and justify why you think they are interesting to you.
Strategy
(questioning)
Create questions for further research. / Strategy
(visualizing)
Create and label a diagram to demonstrate understanding of information you learned. / Strategy
(determining importance)
Identify main ideas and provide supporting details. / Strategy
(connections)
Describe a text-to-text connection to another text.

Informational Text Independent Reading

My Reading
Independent book choice. / Text Element
(cover information)
Use information on the front and back cover to formulate predictions. / Word Skills
(word use)
Use dictionary to find pronunciation and definition of new vocabulary. Write a sentence with new words. / Thinking
(analyzing)
Identify features of the text that demonstrate that it is informational.
Strategy
(connections)
Use a Venn diagram to record similarities and differences between two main ideas within the same text. / Strategy
(questioning)
Using facts from the text, write questions and create an answer sheet. / Strategy
(determining importance)
Examine the cause and effect of main ideas from the text. / Strategy
(monitoring understanding)
Describe how rereading helped you understand what you read.

Informational Text Independent Reading

My Reading
Independent book choice / Text Element
(illustrations)
Create four new illustrations to support the information in the text. Include captions for each illustration. / Word Skills
(glossary)
Create a glossary for new vocabulary. / Thinking
(analyzing)
Record four facts from the text. For each fact, think about whether you think it is a positive fact, or a negative fact and explain why.
Strategy
(connections)
Record a variety of connections to the text. / Strategy
(synthesizing)
Write a paragraph summarizing one main idea and supporting details from the text. / Strategy
(determining importance)
Record examples of facts and opinions from the text. State whether or not you agree with the opinions and why. / Strategy
(questioning)
Record prior knowledge and pose questions for further learning. Research the answer to one of those questions.

Informational Text Independent Reading Third Grade