Non-Fiction Text Features -2
Students will use non-fiction books to identify and explain how text features help them as individual readers.
Essential Question
How can I use text features to help me as a reader?
Grade(s):
- 1
- 2
Subject(s):
Recommended Technology:
Laptop for each student.
Other Instructional Materials or Notes:
Lesson Progression
Link prior knowledge:
The teacher will ask students to think, pair, share text-features they know from prior teachings. Next, they will ask students how they believe text features help them as readers.
The teacher may want to play the Nonfiction Text Features video for a quick review for students.
Learning Strategies:
First, the teacher will pull up the text features chart on the smart board.
Next, the teacher will ask students if there are any text features they are unfamiliar with or need clarification to correctly identify them in a book.
The teacher can use a non-fiction text to show them the activity they will be completing. This will allow students to be able to later scaffold the information.
Together as a class, they will identify the text feature (title) and explain how it helps them as readers.
Students will then break into groups.
They will be given a non-fiction book (the teacher may choose or the students may choose).
They will identify the text features in the book and take a picture using their Chrome books. They will then insert the picture into their chart. (The chart can be sent via Google Classrooms so students may fill it out using technology)
After they insert the picture, they will reflect on how that specific text feature helps them as a reader.
They will complete the chart following the same steps.
The teacher will regroup and allow students to share with their groups how text features help them as a reader.
The students will write their ideas down on an exit slip.
Finally, students will make a “text art” about text features. They will write Text features in the middle of the paper. Then they will write words, phrases, etc. about their individual ideas about what a text feature is and how they help them as a reader.
Non Fiction Text Features -1
During this lesson, students will identify and explore non fiction text features through a variety of text.
View LessonText art example
A possible example of what the exit slip may look like. Will allow students to get an idea of what is expected.
View ResourceStandards
- ELA.1.OE.1 Read and write for a variety of purposes, including academic and personal, for extended periods of time.
- ELA.F.4 Read and reread grade-appropriate texts with accuracy and expression at an appropriate rate to support comprehension.
- ELA.AOR.4 Evaluate and critique how an authors perspective and purpose shapestyle and meaning within and across informational texts.
- ELA.AOR.5 Evaluate and critique how an author uses words, phrases, and text structures to craft text.
- ELA.2.OE.1 Read and write for a variety of purposes, including academic and personal,for extended periods of time.
- ELA.AOR.4 Evaluate and critique how an authors perspective and purpose shape style and meaning within and across informational texts.
- ELA.AOR.5 Evaluate and critique how an author uses words, phrases, and text structures to craft text.
Assessments
The teacher will look at the text art exit slips.