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Researching Through the Nonfiction
Animal Picture Book Genre
Unit Overview
RESEARCHING THROUGH THE NONFICTION
ANIMAL PICTURE BOOK GENRE
| 3rd grade |
| 10 lessons |
| This
reading-writing unit focuses on the development of a nonfiction
animal picture book. The reading and writing activities in this
unit provides opportunities for students to read for a variety
of purposes, to investigate or research topics and to compose a
picture book using the writing process. |
| Specific
strategies Use details, formulate and locate information
on key words, give credit for sources, and independently use a
graphic organizer. |
| This unit consists of 10
lessons. Lessons should occur simultaneously in an effort
to scaffold students’ learning and provide them with
opportunities to build background knowledge to become proficient
readers and writers. |
| Handouts including graphic
organizers |
| Formative and
Summative
Assessment |
| Glossary
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Unit
Plan: Lessons
This unit consists of 10 lessons leading
up to the completion of a nonfiction animal picture book by each student.
| What is a Nonfiction Picture Book Anyway? |
Word |
HTML (with links to
documents) |
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How can I gather essential information and apply it in my own
writing? |
Word |
HTML (with links to
documents) |
| Topic Choice Begins |
Word |
HTML (with links
to documents) |
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Topic Choice Deepens/Keywords/Research |
Word |
HTML (with links to documents) |
| Research |
Word |
HTML (with links
to documents) |
| The Writing Process |
Word |
HTML (with links to
documents) |
| The Writing Process Continues |
Word |
HTML (with links
to documents) |
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The Writing Process Continues (Revising and Editing) |
Word |
HTML (with links
to documents) |
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Giving Credit and Final Copy |
Word |
HTML (with links
to documents) |
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Author Share |
Word |
HTML (with links to
documents) |
Essential
Questions:
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What processes do authors use in researching topics? |
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How can I gather essential information and apply it in my own
writing? |
Summative Assessment and
Scoring Guides:
Students
are scored as they present their nonfiction animal picture books to their
peers at an author share/celebration.
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PREVIOUS LEARNING
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TARGETED LEARNING |
FUTURE LEARNING |
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Use details
for text to ask questions to clarify understanding, identify
main ideas and provide support, retell sequence of events , and
make basic inferences about problems and solutions.
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Use details
from text to retell main ideas, organize a sequence of events,
identify cause and effect, draw conclusions, compare and
contrast texts, make predictions, make inferences, distinguish
between fact and opinion, identify and explain author’s purpose,
and make inferences about problems and solutions. |
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Formulate
key words and questions, with assistance to locate resources of
interest.
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IL1 Formulate key words and
questions to investigate
topics
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Formulate
and research keywords and questions to establish a focus and
purpose for inquiry. |
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Locate
information on keywords and questions in provided resources,
with assistance.
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IL1 Locate information on
keywords in provided resources. |
Locate and
use various resources to find information on keywords and
questions.
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Give credit,
through discussion, for others’ ideas, images, and information.
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IL1 Informally give credit for
others’ ideas, images, and information found in various
resources.
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Informally
give credit for others’ ideas, images, and information found in
various resources. |
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Follow a
writing process to utilize a simple graphic organizer in
prewriting, generate a draft, reread and revise work (with or
without assistance), edit and proofread for capitalization and
ending punctuation, and publish writing with assistance. |
W1A Follow a writing process to
independently use a simple graphic organizer in pre-writing,
generate a draft, routinely edit and proofread for
capitalization and ending punctuation, and independently publish
writing |
Follow a
writing process to independently use a simple graphic organizer
in prewriting, generate a draft, routinely revise, edit and
proofread, and independently publish writing. |
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