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Reading Nonfiction and Writing Expository Text

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Reading Nonfiction and Writing Expository Text

Unit Overview

READING NONFICTION AND WRITING EXPOSITORY TEXT

7th grade
7 lessons
Using a theme of fast food and eating in nonfiction literature, students apply pre-reading strategies to aid comprehension, and post-reading strategies to comprehend and interpret.  Students analyze consumer texts such as product information and identify and interpret figurative language.  Students also analyze propaganda techniques and write multi-paragraph expository essays.
Specific strategies: pre-reading and post-reading
Handouts including graphic organizers
Formative and Summative Assessment
Glossary

Unit Plan: Lessons

This unit, including instruction and assessment, was designed to cover a 10 day period.

Applying Reading Strategies to Aid Comprehension Word HTML (with links to documents)
We Can Eat Smarter Word HTML (with links to documents)
Analyzing Features of Consumer Text Word HTML (with links to documents)
Analyzing Advertising Techniques Word HTML (with links to documents)
Recognizing Advertising Techniques Word HTML (with links to documents)
Writing a Business Letter to Compare and Contrast Word HTML (with links to documents)
Identify and Write about Cause and Effect Relationships Word HTML (with links to documents)

 Essential Questions:

What are the purposes of pre-reading strategies?
What are the purposes of post-reading strategies?
How do features in consumer texts help to clarify meaning?
What are some effective advertising techniques?
What are some commonly used propaganda techniques?

Summative Assessment and Scoring Guides: 

 

PREVIOUS LEARNING

TARGETED LEARNING

FUTURE LEARNING

 

Students are able to apply pre-reading strategies to comprehend written text.

 

 

      R1F    Students will apply pre-reading strategies to aid comprehension of nonfiction text.

 

 

Students will be able to comprehend increasingly difficult text.

 

Students are able to apply post-reading skills to comprehend written text.

 

  R1H   Students will apply post-reading skills to comprehend and interpret nonfiction text.

 

Students will be able to comprehend increasingly difficult text.

 

 

Students are able to analyze text features in newspapers and magazines to clarify meaning.

 

 

R3A      Students will analyze the features of consumer texts, such as product information and instructional data (technical reading) to clarify meaning in nonfiction text.

 

 

Students will be able to evaluate the author’s use of text features to clarify meaning.

 

 

Students are able to identify and explain figurative language in nonfiction text.

 

R3B    Students will identify and interpret figurative language in nonfiction text (emphasis on hyperbole and imagery)

 

 

Students will be able to identify and interpret figurative language in nonfiction text.

 

Students are able to use details from the text(s) to paraphrase, predict, infer, evaluate and respond to two or more sources.

 

 

R3C      Students will use details from nonfiction text(s) to summarize author’s ideas, make predictions, make inferences, evaluate the accuracy of the information, analyze propaganda techniques, and analyze two or more nonfiction texts.

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Students will be able to use details from text(s) to evaluate evidence and to determine author’s purpose.

 

* Students will analyze propaganda techniques so they will be better informed when making personal decisions.

 

Students are able to write sentences and multi-paragraph expository essays.

 

* Students are able to read and follow multi-step directions.

 

W3C      Students will write multi-paragraph expository essays (including compare/contrast and cause/effect) drawing from nonfiction sources.

 

 

Students will be able to write sentences and multi-paragraph expository essays with a thesis statement.