Reading

We love informative reading!

May 3, 2016
Now that we are done examining informational poetry, students will focus on text structure.  Students will read a variety of texts on a topic, such as bats or bees.  With both topics students will examine multiple sources and collect evidence to answer a specific question.  It will be important to keep in mind the viewpoint of each source, as that may affect how the information is presented.
 

Analyzing Multiple Sources

April 10, 2016
To help students prepare for the upcoming PARCC assessment, we will time this week reviewing strategies to help us effectively analyze informational text.  Through these practices, students will identify the main idea of the text, the point of 
view from the author of each text, as well use specific information within the text to justify a response.  In addition to responding to selected response questions, which will have more than one correct answer, students will also craft constructed resp...
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