Detailed teaching of 13 key Spotlight Skills through lively starter videos and computer - based
informational text analysis provides a complete nonfiction curriculum with a carefully curated collection of informational text for each grade level, K to 5.
Labs included: (30 page total) * Pre-lab Activity - Water Cycle
Informational text analysis and think - pair - share activity.
Not exact matches
Current events discussions offer ample opportunity for skill building (e.g. vocabulary development, reading and writing
informational and analytical
text, oral expression, critical
analysis — all part of the ELA Common Core Learning Standards).
Moderation
analyses indicated that immediate questions and non-immediate questions had a more positive effect on student retellings of an
informational text and a narrative
text, respectively, for less proficient than more proficient readers.
This course covers reading, writing, and
analysis using both
informational and literary
texts.
The program focusing on
informational text was implemented in 1998 - 99 after an
analysis of recent statewide reading test data.
The Common Core's writing standards recognize this need and encourages activities such as drawing evidence from literary or
informational texts to support
analysis, reflection, and research help learners as they develop career and college readiness skills.
W.11 - 12.9 Draw evidence from literary or
informational texts to support
analysis, reflection, and research.
Draw evidence from literary or
informational texts to support
analysis, reflection, and research.
W. 4.9 Draw evidence from literary or
informational texts to support
analysis, reflection, and research.
Students will continue to learn to read and develop comprehension skills for fiction
texts, but the lack of preparation for the
analysis of
informational text looms over the heads of teachers.
Although they have little problem decoding the
text, they are challenged by tasks that require comprehension or
analysis strategies that are unique to
informational text.
To respond to a TDA prompt, students must read literary and / or
informational text and then write an essay response that draws evidence, both explicit and implicit, from the
text to support their
analysis using effective written communication knowledge and skills.
Among other shifts, the standards emphasize interpreting
informational text, citing textual evidence to support
analysis, and using data to construct viable arguments.
Draw evidence from literary or
informational texts to support
analysis, reflection, and research.