Lesson Plan #4: Non-Fiction Text

Characters, Settings, and Events.

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Characters, settings, and events, oh my! In this lesson, students will dig deeper into each of these components and learn to provide specific details from their texts. Young readers will love this story-filled reading comprehension lesson. It's packed with engaging exercises designed to help students become better at looking for details and annotating passages of text. Students put their knowledge of animal adaptations to the test when they create a new creature with its own unique set of adaptations!

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In Search of the Main Idea. Young learners will love finding the main ideas in short informational texts. Featuring a bunch of fun worksheets, this lesson will help students learn about different topics while improving their reading skills. Reading that Makes Sense. Improve your students' comprehension of non-fictional reading through this lesson that teaches them about text features. Students will find their own text features and explain why they aid in the reading process. This lesson will help your students use sentence level context clues to decode challenging words in a nonfiction text.

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Life cycles go around and around! In this arts-integrated lesson, students will research various animal life cycles and create a tableau as the final product. Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Text. Use this lesson to help your students learn how to find the main idea and details in a nonfiction text using a graphic organizer for support. Close Reading Through Word Choice. The use of self-selected nonfiction texts for pleasure reading, followed by informal sharing and discussion of information, can give a high-interest twist to the gathering of information and can be a jumping-off point for further inquiry and exploration.

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