14 (D): Text Features (Readiness)

Reading/comprehension Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about expository text, and provide evidence from text to support their understanding
K	1	2	3	4	5
10(D) use  titles and illustrations to make predictions about text	14 (D) use text features (e.g., titles, tables of contents, illustrations) to locate specific information in text	14 (D) use text features(e.g. , table of contents, index, headings) to locate specific information in text	13 (D) use text features (e.g., bold print, captions, key words, italics) to locate information and make and verify predictions about contents of text	11(D) use multiple text features (e.g., guide words, topic and concluding sentences) to gain an overview of the contents of   text and to locate information.	11(D) use multiple text features and graphics to gain an overview of the contents of text and to locate information.
Use text features (e.g., titles ) to locate specific information in text Use text features (e.g., tables) to locate specific information in text Use text features (e.g., illustrations) to locate specific information in text

Activities:

• Comprehension Toolkit - book #1:

           Lesson 2- Notice and Think about Nonfiction Features
           Lesson 3 - Explore Nonfiction Features

• Discuss the text features using a non-fiction big book ( Amazing Water - Science) table of contents, index.  Then introduce the descriptors and display posters from first class.

         First class: curriculum and instruction, elem. lang. arts, curriculum, reading, text features

• Get students in groups and give them fiction and non-fiction books for them to sort.  Walk around and listen to their conversations as to why they placed the book in a certain stack.  Math connection:  Graph the results.
• Interactive Read-Alouds (Linda Hoyt):  Story Elements - Distinguish Fiction/Nonfiction pg. 95 

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14 (C): Retell Expository Text

Reading/comprehension Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about expository text, and provide evidence from text to support their understanding
K	1	2	3	4	5
10(C) discuss the ways authors group information in text	14 (C) retell the order of events in a text by referring to the words and/illustrations	14(C) describe the order of events or ideas in a text	13 (C) identify explicit cause and effect relationships among ideas in texts	11(C) describe explicit and implicit relationships among ideas in texts organized by cause-and-effect, sequence, or comparison	10(C) explain how different organizational patterns (e.g., proposition-and –support ,  problem-and-solution)develop the main idea and the author’s viewpoint.
Retell the order of  events in a text by referring to the words Retell the order of  events in a text by referring to illustrations

Activities:

• Use retelling cards of stories from Treasures to retell a story
• Use sequencing Thinking Map to retell stories by placing pictures in order.  This can lead into a writing lesson.
• During Guided Reading: when students finish their book have them turn and tell their neighbor about the story (make sure they re-tell in order from beg to end).
• Science: retell the steps to a science experiment/process.

Anchor Stations:

Place sentence strips, from a story read during RATT,  in incorrect order in pocket chart and have students order the events.

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14 (B): Important facts or details (Informational)

Reading/comprehension Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about expository text, and provide evidence from text to support their understanding
K	1	2	3	4	5
10(B) retell important facts in a text, heard or read	14(B) identify important  facts or details in text, heard or read	14(B) locate the facts that are clearly stated in a text	13(B)draws conclusions from the facts presented in text and support those assertions with textual evidence	11(B) distinguish fact from opinion in a text and explain how to verify what is a fact	11(B) determine the facts in text and verify them through established methods
Identify important facts in text heard Identify important facts in text read Identify important details in text heard Identify important details in text read

Antivities:

• Comprehension Tool Kit - Determening Importance (Book #5): Lesson 16
• Using Time For Kids "Amazing Helen Keller" poster or any other non-fiction text, teacher models how to distinguish important information from interesting details on an Anchor Chart.
• Use a  * to code / show that something is important

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14 (A): Main Idea (Informational/Expository Text)

Reading/comprehension Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about expository text, and provide evidence from text to support their understanding
K	1	2	3	4	5
10 (A) identify the topic and details in expository text heard or read referring to the words and/or illustrations	14(A) restate the main idea, heard or read	14(A) identify the main idea in a text and distinguish it from the topic	13(A) identify the details or facts that support the main idea	11(A) summarize the main ideas and supporting details in a text in ways that maintain meaning	11(A) summarize the main ideas and supporting details in a text in ways that maintain meaning and logical order
restate the main idea heard restate the main idea read

Activities:

• Use a big book and cover the headings, then have students infer what the heading should be.
• Comprehension Tool Kit (Book #6) - Lesson #19:  Summarize Information pg.2
• Using Time for Kids "Welcome to the Rainforest" or any other non-fiction text, teacher and students take notes on sticky notes or chart then organize the important information to create a summary.
• Comprehension Tool Kit (Book #6) - Lesson #20: Read to Get the Big Ideas pg. 18
• Students and Teacher infer, visualize, and ask questions in order to support synthesizing.
• Summarizing and Note Taking - A Marzano Best Teaching Practice (share what the upper grades are doing to see where the 1st graders are headed).
• http://www.readworks.com/   - requires a FREE Password. 

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Fig. 19 (E): Retell Stories

Figure 19 (E)
K	1	2	3	4	5
Retell or act  out important events in stories	Retell or act out important events in stories in logical order	Retell important events in stories in logical order	Summarize information in text, maintaining meaning and logical order	Summarize information in text, maintaining meaning and logical order	Summarize and paraphrase texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order within a text and across texts
Retell  important events in stories in logical order Act out important events in stories in logical order

Activities:

• Retell events using nursery rhymes and felt-board activities
• Use a flow map to introduce order of events and retelling using the concept of PK thru 4th.  You must go to kinder before first grade and so on

Anchor Activities:

• Use a flow map for the students to place the pictures from the nursery rhyme in order on the map

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Fig. 19 (D): Inferences - Readiness

Figure 19 (D)
K	1	2	3	4	5
Make inferences based on the cover, title, illustrations, and plot	Make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding	Make inferences about text using textual evidence to support understanding	Make inferences about text using textual evidence to support understanding	Make inferences about text using textual evidence to support understanding	Make inferences about text using textual evidence to support understanding
Make inferences about text to support understanding Make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding

Activities:

• Interactive Read-Alouds (Linday Hoyt): comprehension -Infer p. 33  No, David!
• Comprehension Tool Kit (Stephanie Harvey): Book # 4
• Lesson 12--Infer Meaning page 3
• Lesson 15 -- Infer and Visualize with Narrative Nonfiction page46
• Use Early Childhood flap books to infer using Background knowlege (what we know) + text clues (pictures and words) = Inference

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