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CollegeandCareer Readiness (CCR) Anchor Standard / Standard: RL.1.5-Explain major differences between books that tellstories and books thatgive information, drawing on awide readingof a rangeof text types.R.CCR.5 Analyzethe structureof texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of thetext (e.g.,a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relateto each other and the whole. / Questions to FocusLearning
What arethe differencesbetween texts that tellstories andtexts that giveinformation?Howwillidentifying the typeof textaid in readingcomprehension?
Authors select real information or makebelieveideas to tellthe reader what typeof text theyareabout to read. Knowingthe texttypewillhelpthe reader to understandthe author's purpose. This allows readers toset their own purpose forreading and aids in their comprehension of thetext.
Student FriendlyObjectives
KnowledgeTargets
Iknow somebooks tellstories and somebooksgive information.
Iknow informationaltext is a pieceof text that will teach sometypeof information. Iknow some informational texts haveheadings, tables of contents, andglossaries.
Iknow aheadingis thebeginningofasection ofinformationaltext. Iknow atableof contents explains how abook is organized.
Iknow aglossaryis analphabetical listof vocabularywordsand theirdefinitions that is found at theback of thetext. Iknow astoryis told to entertain orto send alesson or message.
Iknow that fiction refersto a storyabout imaginaryeventsorpeople.
Reasoning Targets
I can tell thedifferencebetween books that tellstories andbooks thatgive information from manytypes of texts.
Vocabulary
fiction glossary heading imaginary
informational text story
tableof contents
Teacher Tips
Book SortingActivity-This activitytakes students through sortingbooks bytitle,genre, andthen bytopic. Animal Study-This lesson describes how to use selected fiction and nonfiction literature and careful questioning techniques to help students identifyfactual information about animals.
Animal Study:Facts from Fiction-This lesson allows studentsto use both fiction and nonfiction texts,theInternet, and aK-W-Lchart to learn about how animals survive theWinter.
Activities:
Fact orFiction Sort -This activityallows studentsto practiceidentifyingnonfiction and fictiongradelevel text. Fiction or Nonfiction Review-This independentactivityallows students to practiceidentifying fiction and nonfiction text.
Website
Starfall -This web pagetakesyou to Starfall.comwherestudentscan listento a varietyof fiction and nonfiction stories.
Vertical Progression
RL.K.5 -Recognize common types of texts (e.g.,storybooks, poems).
RL.2.5 -Describethe overallstructureof astory,includingdescribinghowthe beginningintroducesthe storyand the ending concludes theaction.
RL.4.5 -Explain majordifferences between poems, drama, and prose, andrefer to thestructural elements of poems (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) and drama (e.g., castsof characters, settings, descriptions, dialogue, stagedirections) when writingor speaking about atext.
RL.5.5 -Explain how aseries of chapters, scenes,orstanzas fits together to provide theoverallstructureof a particular story, drama, or poem.
RL.6.5 -Analyzehow aparticular sentence,chapter, scene, or stanza fits into theoverallstructureofatext and contributes to thedevelopment ofthetheme, setting, or plot.
RL.7.5 -Analyzehow adrama's or poem'sform or structure(e.g., soliloquy,sonnet)contributes to its meaning. RL.8.5 -Compare and contrast thestructureof two or moretexts and analyzehow thedifferingstructureofeach text contributes to its meaningand style.
RL.9-10.5 -Analyzehow an author's choices concerninghow to structureatext, order events within it(e.g., parallel plots), and manipulatetime (e.g., pacing,flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
RL.11-12.5 -Analyzehow an author's choices concerninghow to structurespecific parts ofatext (e.g., thechoiceof whereto begin or end astory, thechoiceto providea comedicor tragicresolution) contributeto itsoverallstructure and meaningas wellas its aestheticimpact.
The aboveinformation and more can be accessedfor freeon the Wiki-Teacherwebsite. Direct link forthis standard: RL.1.5