LESSON FIVE: Using Details from the Text

 

GRADE-LEVEL EXPECTATIONS

o              W2F, W3E  The student will write an informative report for an intended audience and purpose

o              R3C  The student will use details from text to answer questions and solve problems.

o              R3C  The student will use details from the text to retell main ideas and important details.

 

LESSON MATERIALS

Sources of Literature

o        The Trip of a Drip by Vicki Cobb

 

Supplies 

o        Nonfiction, information texts

 

Handouts provided

o        Powerful Writing Tree graphic organizer

 

Words to know

o        graphic organizer

o        keywords

o        nonfiction

o        supporting details

 

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

Students share their graphic organizer with other students. Students orally share one detail they learned from their classmates.

 

LEARNING ACTIVITIES

1.              Share an informational book with students such as The Trip of a Drip by Vicki Cobb. Display other nonfiction/information texts.

 

Questions

for

Students

Have you ever read a book and wanted to learn more about the topic?  What did you do?  What are some ways you could find out more?

 

2.              Model orally how to use nonfiction text to answer questions with supporting details from the book.  Use a graphic organizer, such as the Powerful Writing Tree (see handout), to demonstrate organization of information to write an informational report.  After filling in the information on the graphic organizer, demonstrate how to use the information from the graphic organizer to write a one/half to one page informational report which will answer the following questions:  What is the main idea?  What are three supporting details?  What was one fact you learned from the book? What conclusions could you make about your topic?

 

Questions

for

Students

What are some keywords we might use to find out more about the water cycle? (Or the research topic you choose.)

What is something we might want to write on the graphic organizer?

How do I want to begin my informational report?

 

Suggestions

Display a sample of a completed research graphic organizer.

Have a variety of nonfiction/informational books displayed for easy student access.

Use the overhead or chart paper to enable all students’ visual access.

Examples of graphic organizers can be found at teachnet.com or Carson-Dellosa’s website.  Sample graphic organizers that could be used are:

word web, mind map, cause and effect, concept pattern.

Teacher or students will need to keep graphic organizers for performance event.

 

3.              With a partner, students select one nonfiction book from the teacher display to read. Using the book, students prepare a graphic organizer to assist them in writing an informational report.