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   View Standards     Standard(s): [ELA2015] (2) 10 :

10 ) Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. [RI.2.1]

[ELA2015] (2) 11 :

11 ) Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text. [RI.2.2]

[ELA2015] (2) 16 :

16 ) Explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text. [RI.2.7]

[ELA2015] (2) 15 :

15 ) Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe. [RI.2.6]

[ELA2015] (2) 28 :

28 ) Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question. [W.2.8]

This lesson is about using detective skills to be better nonfiction readers. Students will gather clues from the text to make assumptions and connections that will solve, and make meaning about the text. The students will use nonfiction text context clues, and pictures to realize that the author’s purpose is for them to find ALL the clues and make meaning of a topic.

• Students use clues such as text evidence to make connections and understand text.  

• Students use key details such as text evidence to gather information about a topic or the authors intended purpose.

   View Standards     Standard(s): [CE] (0-12) 25 :

25 ) Perseverance

[ELA2015] (2) 15 :

15 ) Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe. [RI.2.6]

[ELA2015] (2) 28 :

28 ) Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question. [W.2.8]

[ELA2015] (3) 15 :

15 ) Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text. [RI.3.6]

[ELA2015] (3) 29 :

29 ) Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories. [W.3.8]

In this lesson, students will learn to identify the main purpose of a text and distinguish it from their own point of view with the book A Weed is a Flower:  The Life of George Washington Carver by Aliki and other informational texts.

This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.

   View Standards     Standard(s): [DLIT] (2) 3 :

R3) Assess the validity and identify the purpose of digital content.

[ELA2015] (2) 15 :

15 ) Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe. [RI.2.6]

This lesson looks at a valid print source, valid Internet source, and an example of fake news. Students will learn how to differentiate between real and fake news in preparation for research.

This activity was created as a result of the DLCS COS Resource Development Summit.

   View Standards     Standard(s): [ELA2015] (2) 15 :

15 ) Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe. [RI.2.6]

[SC2015] (2) 7 :

7 ) Obtain information from literature and other media to illustrate that there are many different kinds of living things and that they exist in different places on land and in water (e.g., woodland, tundra, desert, rainforest, ocean, river).

Get close-up and grossed-out as you learn about the wonderful way worms work in our environment. Learn vermicomposting, and dig into how an author may write text to support his or her point of view.