LESSON ONE: Components of Nonfiction Text

 

LESSON DESCRIPTION

The student locates and interprets information from a book about bartering or a nonfiction text:  illustrations, titles, headings, captions, diagrams, charts, and graphs.

 

GRADE-LEVEL EXPECTATIONS ADDRESSED

R3A        Develop and apply skills and strategies to comprehend, analyze and evaluate nonfiction from a variety of cultures and times: Text features

 

LESSON MATERIALS

 

§         Sources of Literature

o        None

 

§         Supplies

o        Textbook or other nonfiction text that contains illustrations, titles, headings, captions,diagrams, charts, graphs

 

§         Handouts provided

o        Features of text

o        Nonfiction activity sheet/formative assessment

 

§         Words to know

o        nonfiction

 

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

Teacher will use nonfiction activity sheet/formative assessment handout to record student responses.

 

LEARNING ACTIVITIES

1.        Tell the students you want to know if there is information in their nonfiction text about a particular topic.  Go through the text identifying the different parts:  illustrations, titles, headings, captions, diagrams, charts, and graphs.

 

Questions

for

Students

Can you find a heading in the text? 

Why is there a heading?

Where is a diagram located?

What does a diagram show?

Can you explain what is happening in the illustration on page (. . )  by reading the caption?

What does the chart on page (. . ) tell us?

Look at the graph on page ( . .) what conclusions can you draw from it?

 

Suggestion

 

You could make transparencies of the different parts to display on overhead so all students can

 see. If you have a classroom set of nonfiction books, each student could have a copy.    Display examples of the heading, diagram, illustrator, captions, charts, graphs on chart paper. Using pairs students could check their partner’s book page to be sure they’re on the correct page as class follows teacher modeling.  For the formative assessment you might want to select one chapter for student response to facilitate grading.

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.     Using the text, students work in small groups to locate the parts of nonfiction text as modeled by the teacher.  Groups share information with class.   Features of text (teacher checklist) handout provided.

 

3.        Students will individually locate an example of the components in the text using the Nonfiction Activity Sheet handout.