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Subject:
English Language Arts (2)
Title:
Reading Like a Detective
Description:
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.
Subject:
Character Education (K - 12), or English Language Arts (2 - 3)
Title:
A Weed is a Flower
Description:
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.
