Propuesta

This unit is a continuation/extension of the March unit on nonfiction books using the science and writing units together. Here the students will be reading to learn and teach others on about a specific topic they chose. They will learn how to compare and contrast information across books as well

as synthesize information from different texts to become experts on their topics. Since the class will be studying ants, your students will be looking at ants as well as other nonfiction topics that you have groups of books about. You can also bring back books that support the other science units you have taught to support independent work ( balls and ramps, our five senses, chicks, trees).

Reading Big Ideas: Course Objectives / Content Statement(s)

r Reading nonfiction to learn about topics of interest

r Readers read noticing and collecting new information

r Readers make connections between books looking for bigger ideas and understandings

r Talking-to-teach with a partner

Essential Questions

What provocative questions will foster inquiry, understanding, and transfer of learning? What will students understand about the big ideas? Enduring Understandings

r How can I use what I already know to help gather information from a nonfiction book?

r How can I continue to collect new information reading the same and/or different books about a topic?

r How does a reader gather information about a topic in order to generate 'bigger' ideas and understandings?

r How might partners talk with a partner to teach them about a topic?

Students will understand that…

rReaders gather information from nonfiction books using words, features, and pictures

rReaders collect new information about a topic by examining various books on that topic

rReaders make connections between books on a topic while looking for bigger ideas and understandings.

r Readers can teach a partner or a group about a topic they have learned.

Areas of Focus: Proficiencies

(National Core Standard Alignment) Examples, Outcomes, Assessments

Students will: Instructional Focus:

Bend1: Readers have strategies to read nonfiction texts with Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

1. Actively engage in group reading with purpose and understanding. _{understanding}

• As we revisit nonfiction reading, we know that readers have special ways to read nonfiction books ( bring out old chart listing these skills).

o Looking at cover to start thinking about topic

o Thinking about what you might already know about a topic. o Look closely at pictures to learn more about a topic.

o Look closely at text features and use them to learn more. o Use fingers as organizer for holding onto information. Bend II: Readers read nonfiction to learn about topics of interest

• Readers sometimes pick a topic of interest to study and learn as much as they can to become and expert at the topic. In your table bins, you will get to pick a group of books about a topic of your choice. When choosing you books, ask yourself, “ Which topic do I really want to become an expert at?”. Pick those books and start reading and learning!

• Readers reread their books many times each time picking up new information from the text, the features, or the pictures. After you read a book, reread the book at least two more times each time taking your time to look at all there is on the page, while also reading the words easier each time. This will help you remember and understand the information.

• Readers self assess, self monitor and use fix up strategies , When you get to a part that you doesn’t make sense, you can say, “oops Reading Standards for Informational Texts

Key Ideas and Details:

1. With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

2. With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.

3. With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of informational text.

Craft and Structure:

1, With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.

2. Identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.

3. Name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in text.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:

1. With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and text in which they appear (e.g. what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).

2. With prompting and support, identify the reasons and author gives to support points in a text.

3. With prompting and support, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts in the same topic (e.g. in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).

Range of Reading Level of Text Complexity:

1. Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.

Foundational Skills Print Concepts

1. Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.

a. Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. b. Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters.

c. Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.

d. Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet. Phonological Awareness

1. Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).

a. Recognize and produce rhyming words.

b. Count, produce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. c. Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. d. Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial, vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC words. This does not include CVC ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.

e. Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.

Phonics and Word Recognition

1. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

a. Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter sound

correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant.

b. Associate the long vowel and short with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.

c. Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, my, is, are, do, does).

d. Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.

Fluency

1. Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.

let me try that again and reread, running start….”.

• Readers look for bigger ideas by looking at more than one text side by side and asking yourself,” These two books are making me think…”.

Bend III:Nonfiction Readers can Read More Than OneBook