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 |
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:
PREVIOUS LEARNING |
TARGETED LEARNING |
FUTURE LEARNING |
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 read non-fiction text, retell main ideas and important details to answer questions and organize a sequence of events and identify author’s purpose.
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. |
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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