4Research+(11)

Research Week One: Class Animal Research (April 9-13)

**Reading – Expository; Writing – Expository & Procedural** ** Teaching point ** This unit will be a review of expository texts with much more __depth and complexity__. The teacher will guide students to __read with a purpose__. __Students will decide__ what they wish to read about and then to how to question what they are reading to find their answers. Students will then __take what they have learned and put it into a brief composition__. **The teacher must be completing his/her own expository search and be writing on chart paper to demonstrate to students what their writing should look like.** **Suggested Pacing** **Week 1:** **Reading –** Teachers will review main ideas with students; teachers can use passages from iBistro using EBSCO Kidsearch or Infobits or others that would have articles on your level; take time to look at supporting details to back up the main idea – this is done as a class utilizing Mini-Lessons; while looking through books, review text features with the students (anchor chart previously made) **Writing –** The class will decide on a topic to create a brief composition; students can choose a part of the topic to write about – information will be gathered from books checked out from the library; students will jot brief notes about what they discover; personal stories should be written throughout the year

**Mini-Lesson Ideas** Nonfiction Text Questions, before, during, and after reading. These questions will help children keep track of what they are learning. When these questions are introduced whole group, students should be assigned turn and talk partners, so that as questions are asked of the text, the teacher models her /his responses and then students have an assigned person to turn and practice their responses. These questions can also be used in small group instruction as well as when students are partner reading. The RAN chart (Stead, 2006), is a powerful graphic organizer that will help teachers and students keep track of their questions, new
 * Main ideas
 * Details
 * Text Features

Reading Lesson Idea 1: Main Idea


 * Read about a favorite animal;
 * List headings as the main idea;
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">List facts;
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Use Tasha's Fact/Opinion and Fact/Opinion chart to differentiate between fact/opinion/non-fact

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Reading Lesson Idea 2: Details
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Teacher reads another book about their animal
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Teacher lists several ideas about their animal on chart paper
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Students differentiate between Facts, Opinions, and Non-Facts

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Reading Lesson Idea 3:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Students are given a short, grade level appropriate passage on their animal
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Students create Main Idea Spider using **__ONLY FACTS__**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Word Work: Unit 30 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Activity of Choice:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">word sort (required)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">CUPS/Hot Cocoa Sentence: 5 meaningful sentences with words, undelining them and using CUPS.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Silly story: How many words can you use with the patterns in a silly story
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Word Adventure: Scavenger hunt- on word list (1 pt), not on word list but at the end of the word(2 pts) and phoneme in the middle (5 points)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Writing: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Review CUPS - Capitalization, Usage, Punctuation, and Spelling

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In writer's workshop - model a main idea paragraph about your chosen class animal. Focus on a TOPIC SENTENCE followed by 3-4 details.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Writer's Workshop Activities/Reader Responses of choice based on your rotations/workshop guidelines.

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