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Summary Writing and Research
Unit Overview
SUMMARY WRITING AND RESEARCH
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3rd grade |
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6 lessons |
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Using nonfiction text, students gain
practice using detail from text to identify keywords and main
idea, determine cause and effect, compare and contrast, and draw
conclusions. |
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Specific
strategies: Identify main ideas, determine cause and effect,
compare and contrast, draw conclusions |
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This unit consists of six
lessons. |
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Handouts including graphic
organizers |
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Formative and
Summative
Assessment |
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Glossary
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Unit
Plan: Lessons
This unit
consists of ten 45-50 minute sessions.
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Using Details from the Text |
Word |
HTML (with links to
documents) |
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Using Keywords |
Word |
HTML (with links to
documents) |
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Locating Information using Keywords |
Word |
HTML (with links to
documents) |
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Identify Cause Effect, Draw
Conclusions, Compare and Contrast |
Word |
HTML (with links to
documents) |
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Review Cause Effect, Draw Conclusions,
Compare and Contrast |
Word |
HTML (with links to
documents) |
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Use Details from Text to Identify Cause and
Effect, Draw Conclusions, Compare and Contrast |
Word |
HTML (with links to
documents) |
Essential
Questions:
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What are keywords? |
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How can understanding cause and effect help us see that
studying the past can help make decisions for the future? |
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How can comparison and contrast help us see that studying
the past can help make decisions for the future? |
Summative Assessment and
Scoring Guides:
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PREVIOUS LEARNING
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TARGETED LEARNING |
FUTURE LEARNING |
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The
students must be able to use details from the text to ask
questions to clarify understanding, identify main ideas and
provide support, retell sequence of events and make
inferences based on text |
R3C The learner will be
able to use details from the text to identify simple cause
and effect, to draw conclusions, and to compare and contrast
texts.
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The
students will be able to use details from text to answer
questions, retell main ideas and important details, organize
a sequence of events, identify simple cause and effect, draw
conclusions, compare and contrast texts. Students must also
be able to identify author’s purpose for writing text, make
predictions and distinguish between fact and opinion. |
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The
students must be able to formulate key words with
assistance; to locate resource on topic of interest, locate
information on key words and questions in provided
resources, with assistance.
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IL1A The learner will be
able to formulate key words and questions to investigate
topics.
IL1B The learner will be
able to locate information on keywords in provided
resources.
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The
students will be able to formulate key words and questions
to investigate topic to further establish a focus and
purpose for inquiry.
The
learner will be able to locate and use information on key
words and questions in provided resources, and informally
give credit for others ideas, images and information found
in various resources.
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The
students must be able to give credit, through discussion,
for other’s ideas, images and information. |
IL1D The learner will be
able to informally give credit for others’ ideas, images and
information found in various resources.
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The
students will be able to give credit for others ideas,
images and information found in various resources.
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