Did this make this happen? Is this why this happened? All About Cause and Effect Relationships
Students will use a mentor text to identify cause and effect relationships. Students will also find the missing cause or effect. They will work collaboratively to complete a graphic organizer and use teacher-created anchor charts to help them in identifying the relationships.
Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions in an Anne Frank Digital Challenge
Students will work collaboratively on a digital challenge activity by reading short excerpts of nonfiction text and explore an online webpage where they will learn more about the life of Anne Frank and the World War II era. By answering inferential and organizational structure questions, regarding those topics, students will be in a race against each other to crack the code to a lockbox.
Text Features of Non-Fiction
The students will identify elements of nonfiction text by analyzing the importance of text features.
Using Text Features in Everyday Life
Students will use text features in a nonfiction passage to locate information, make and verify predictions about content and purpose of the text, and identify author’s purpose.
The Domino Effect of Cause and Effect
Students will identify explicit cause and effect relationships using keywords and phrases while reading relevant informational texts aligned with technology and current events.
Teacher Models Cause and Effect Relationships Within a Text
Apply the P.I.E.
This lesson is a review of the author's purpose, and also the first look into selecting textual evidence to support the purpose. The lesson will review a selected text as a group and then break into smaller groups so that each student is able to have hands-on experience evaluating the author’s purpose.
Matchup Mashup
Students will join like text features by reassembling a deconstructed nonfiction text.
Why Would They Say That?
Students will analyze multiple texts on the same topic to identify the text structures used and find each author’s purpose.
Teacher compares author's purpose in text to the purposes of eating utensils.
Home Is Where the Heart Is
Through teacher modeling, blended learning stations, self-monitoring, and developing and responding to questioning strategies of reciprocal teaching, students will be able to examine a variety of visual and written expository texts and compare how the authors achieved similar or different purposes.
Text Features Detectives
Students will work together to answer questions about an expository text containing no text features. Then, students will justify their answers using the same text but with text features.