Bend II: Research a New Topic, with Attention to Main Ideas In Bend II, research groups will swap topics with another group, and they’ll research a new plant topic. We’ve provided suggested swap groups on the online resources that will allow students to transfer the knowledge and vocabulary they’ve acquired on their first topic over to their new topic. For instance, the group studying rainforest plants could swap with the group studying ocean and wetland plants. As a class, you will continue to research plants and their adaptations during your minilessons, read-aloud and vocabulary extensions. Your teaching across this bend will focus on helping students determine the main idea and summarize. You’ll teach students strategies that will help them to determine main ideas that the author is teaching, identify relevant supportive details that fit with those main ideas, and jot notes to capture the main ideas they are learning. You’ll also teach students how to summarize texts, both orally and in writing, so that they can hold onto the big things that they are learning and teach those points to others. Bend II: Overview Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4 45 min.
Launch a New Research Project, and Find Pop-Out Sentences that Convey the Main Idea Students will transfer their Bend I research skills as they begin to research a new plant topic in groups. As they read start-here texts, students will deter- mine main ideas, using topic sentences where present.
Determine Main Ideas, Using Relevant Headings Students will continue to determine main ideas, adding a new strategy to their repertoire: using headings to determine what a section is mostly about. They’ll draw on all their main idea strategies as they research.
Generate Main Ideas from Supportive Details Students will continue to determine main ideas, adding a new strategy to their repertoire: noticing supportive details and determining how they fit together. They’ll draw on this and other main idea strategies as they research.
Identify Supportive Details to Fit with Main Ideas, and Jot Notes Students will learn to use a boxes-and-bullets structure to take notes, where they jot the main idea a section teaches and the supportive details. This work will be especially supportive of state standardized tests.
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Transfer Word Study Learn- ing to Connected Texts Students will transfer their word study learning about syllable types to reading workshop, which will help students to read complex connected texts. Students will work in supportive part- nerships to word solve.
Craft Oral and Written Summaries of Texts
Prepare to Teach Others as a Way to Solidify Learning Students will summarize their learning as a way to teach others. They will celebrate by presenting their learning orally to their classmates.
Students will learn to sum- marize a text orally and in writing by stating the main ideas and key supportive details. At the end of the session, students will jot a written summary that you can assess.
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Unit 2 • Reading Nonfiction Text Sets: Plants and Their Adaptations
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