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Standard RI

RI Reading–Informational Text

Grade(s): 1

Subject(s): English Language Arts

Year: 2015

Author's Purpose Sort
Author's Purpose Sort

Document

Students will differentiate text functions by considering the author's purpose. This PDF is a 2 page worksheet for students. Page 1 is where students will record notes on each purpose. Page 2 are the...
Hot Chocolate Sentences
Hot Chocolate Sentences

Lesson

The students will be able to create a sentence containing 3 sentence features by using the hot chocolate sentence metaphor.

Syllables
Syllables

Lesson

The students will learn how to break words into two syllables.

Making a difference in the world
Making a difference in the world

Lesson

One person can make a difference. A young woman reflects on her community and how cutting down all the trees has effected the lives of her people. What can one person do to help save her community.

Gordon's Discovery | Auntie Karen's Place
Episode 6

Video

Gordon is one of Auntie Karen's Jamaican Yams Character. When Gordon, a purple overweight Jamaican Yam discovers he is pre-diabetic, he gets some comforting advice from his friend Shelby. The purpose...
John Troy McQueen | Conversations with SC Writers

Video

South Carolina author of children's books, John Troy McQueen, begins with a reading from A World Full of Monsters . Mr. McQueen says that he sometimes writes story ideas down, but sometimes he allows...