Some students -LSB-[https://www.scholastic.com/content/dam/teachers/blogs/angela-bunyi/migrated-files/grafittitable.jpg add ideas]-RSB- right away while other students use the ideas listed to help build connections to information they learned during the lesson (e.g., a specific fact from the text, an idea about
nonfiction text structure, a skill readers use).
While in middle school, students need to read
nonfiction texts that contain many technical, discipline - specific words, but these
texts also include many «all - purpose» academic words, such as factor,
structure, function, and interpret.
For example, in order to craft and understand some types of stories, students need to be able to cite textual evidence (key ideas and details), determine the meaning of words (craft and
structure), integrate information (integration of knowledge of ideas), and read and comprehend literary
nonfiction (range of reading and level of
text complexity).
The second unit, Reading to Learn: Grasping Main Ideas and
Text Structures, addresses essential skills for reading expository nonfiction, such as ascertaining main ideas, recognizing text infrastructure, comparing texts, and thinking critically, as well as the skills for reading narrative nonfiction, such as determining importance by using knowledge of story struct
Text Structures, addresses essential skills for reading expository
nonfiction, such as ascertaining main ideas, recognizing
text infrastructure, comparing texts, and thinking critically, as well as the skills for reading narrative nonfiction, such as determining importance by using knowledge of story struct
text infrastructure, comparing
texts, and thinking critically, as well as the skills for reading narrative
nonfiction, such as determining importance by using knowledge of story
structure.