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Lewis and Clark

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Lewis and Clark

Unit Overview

LEWIS AND CLARK

4th grade
8 lessons
In this unit students learn about Lewis and Clark.  Using nonfiction text features, students develop pre-reading and post-reading strategies.
This unit consists of eight lessons. Students use story elements to retell main ideas, compare and contrast texts, and make inferences about problems and solutions. Students write expository and persuasive text using the Lewis and Clark theme.
Handouts including graphic organizers
Formative and Summative Assessment
Glossary

Unit Plan: Lessons

This unit includes eight lessons and a summative assessment that can be implemented in approximately two to three weeks.

Pre- and Post-Reading Strategies Word HTML (with links to documents)
Who was Sacajawea? Word HTML (with links to documents)
Nonfiction Text Features Word HTML (with links to documents)
Blanket the Plains Word HTML (with links to documents)
Comparing and Contrasting: Fact vs. Opinion Word HTML (with links to documents)
Nonfiction Text Elements (Part One) Word HTML (with links to documents)
Nonfiction Text Elements (Part Two) Word HTML (with links to documents)
"What if?" Word HTML (with links to documents)

 Essential Questions:

What pre- and post- reading strategies can students apply to nonfiction texts to increase comprehension?

How will students connect expository reading to their own expository and persuasive writing?

How do students notice and use text features in nonfiction text to aid comprehension?

How do students use details from texts to comprehend?

Summative Assessment and Scoring Guides:

 

PREVIOUS LEARNING

TARGETED LEARNING

FUTURE LEARNING

 

Apply pre-reading strategies to aid comprehension.

 

 

CA3  Apply pre-reading strategies to aid comprehension including accessing prior knowledge, previewing, predicting, setting a purpose for reading.         

 

 

Apply pre-reading strategies to aid comprehension including a rate for reading.

 

Apply post-reading skills to identify and explain the relationships between the main idea and supporting details.

 

CA3 Apply post-reading skills to comprehend text. 

 

Apply post-reading skills to comprehend and interpret text.

 

 

Locate and interpret key information in nonfiction text features to answer questions.

 

 

CA3 Apply information from nonfiction text features to comprehend text.

 

Apply information from nonfiction text features to clarify and connect concepts to the main ideas.

 

Explain examples of sensory details within the context of nonfiction text.

CA3 Explain examples of sensory details and figurative language.

Identify and explain figurative language in nonfiction text emphasizing similes, metaphors, and personification.

 

Use details from the text(s) to demonstrate an understanding of nonfiction text elements.

CA3  Use details from the text to retell main ideas, organize a sequence of events, identify cause and effect, draw conclusions, compare and contrast text, make predictions, make inferences, distinguish between fact and opinion, identify and explain author’s purpose, make inferences about problems and solutions.

 

Use details from the text t restate main idea and supporting details identify and explain cause and effect, evaluate the accuracy of the information, identify and interpret author’s ideas and purpose.

Write expository text with a main idea and three or more supporting details.

CA4 Write expository and persuasive paragraphs with a main idea or point to prove, three or more supporting details, and a concluding sentence.

Write expository and persuasive paragraphs with an emphasis on comparing and contrasting with an effective topic sentence or point to prove, three or more supporting sentences, and a concluding sentence.