Unit 3

READING/LITERATURE: APPLY A WIDE RANGE OF STRATEGIES TO COMPREHEND, INTERPRET, EVALUATE, APPRECIATE, AND RESPOND TO A WIDE VARIETY OF TEXTS

3.3a Comprehension/critical literacy: Interact with the words and concepts in the text to construct an appropriate meaning: Summary and generalization: Summarize and paraphrase information from entire reading selection including the main idea and significant supporting details

Summarize As You Read

BBC Online Activity

Finding the Main Idea

Online Lesson and Quiz

Main Idea Lesson

What’s the Big Idea?

What’s The Big Idea III?

Lesson with worksheets

Get The Idea

Lesson and online practice

Identify the Main Idea - Fiction

Online quiz

Identify the Main Idea – Non ficton

Online quiz

Main Idea Game

Identify the main idea to get clues to a silly riddle

 

 

3.3b Comprehension/critical literacy: Interact with the words and concepts in the text to construct an appropriate meaning: Summary and generalization: Make generalizations with information gleaned from text

How To Be A Critical Reader

How Are They Selling It?

Online lesson and quiz from the BBC

Teaching Students To Make Inferences

Teacher Strategies

 

 

3.4d Comprehension/critical literacy: Interact with the words and concepts in the text to construct an appropriate meaning: Analysis and evaluation: Make observations and connections, react, speculate, interpret, and raise questions in analysis of texts

Guess What Comes Next

Online lesson and quiz from the BBC

The World’s Greatest Contralto

Scholastic story with activity following.  Needs paper and pencil

Write Your Own Branching Story

Use Excel to give students a branching story assignment

 

 

5.1a Research and information: Conduct research and organize information: Accessing information: Select the best source for a given purpose: Determine and use appropriate sources for accessing information including, dictionaries, thesaurus, electronic card catalogs and databases, magazines, newspapers, technology/Internet, encyclopedias, atlases, almanacs, tables of contents, glossaries, and indexes

Quick Check

Good guide to web page evaluation written for elementary and middle school students.  Includes quiz.

 

 

5.1b Research and information: Conduct research and organize information: Accessing information: Select the best source for a given purpose: Identify and credit the sources used to gain information

 

 

5.1c Research and information: Conduct research and organize information: Accessing information: Select the best source for a given purpose: Use text features to access information (e.g., format, italics, heading, subheadings, graphics, sequence, diagrams, illustrations, charts, and maps)

Read All About It

Students look a sample newspaper headlines and predict where they will find needed information

Reading Headlines

Students read a headline and decide what the article is about

What Are They Selling?

Students look at titles and make predictions about the contents of an article

Interpreting Data Charts

Interpreting Column Graphs

Interpreting A Pie Graph

What’s On A Map

Online lessons and quiz from the BBC

 

 

 

 

5.1d Research and information: Conduct research and organize information: Accessing information: Select the best source for a given purpose: Use reference features of printed text, such as citations, endnotes, and bibliographies to locate relevant information about a topic

 

 

5.1e Research and information: Conduct research and organize information: Accessing information: Select the best source for a given purpose: Use the features of informational texts, such as formats, graphics, diagrams, illustrations, charts, maps, and organization, to find information and support understanding

Read All About It

Students look a sample newspaper headlines and predict where they will find needed information

Reading Headlines

Students read a headline and decide what the article is about

What Are They Selling?

Students look at titles and make predictions about the contents of an article

Interpreting Data Charts

Interpreting Column Graphs

Interpreting A Pie Graph

What’s On A Map

Online lessons and quiz from the BBC

 

 

5.2a Research and information: Conduct research and organize information: Interpreting information: Analyze and evaluate information from a variety of sources: Follow multi-step directions to accomplish a task (e.g., video games, computer programs, recipes)