Unit Six

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Unit Six

• Expository Text

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Unifying Focus TEXAS HISTORY

• Social Studies Text and Other Related Readings

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Looking at the Lessons
Unit 6 Expository Text
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Looking at the Lessons

• Lesson 1
• Expository Text Structure
• Expository Text Features
• Context Clues

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Reading Selections

• Social studies textbook
• Encyclopedia articles (from the library or
  online)
• Web sites
• Trade books

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Early Explorers of Texas

• Based on Fourth Grade CLEAR Social Studies
  Syllabus
• Compare and contrast
• Cause and effect
• Adapt as needed to correlate with your social
  studies instruction.

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Independent Reading

• Limited choice
• Sources
• Online resources
• Encyclopedias
• Trade books
• Textbook material
• Partners

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Looking at the Lessons

• Lesson 2
• Maps
• Pre- and During Reading Skills
• Ideas for Writing

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Lesson Adaptation

• Read the sample think-aloud found in Unit 6, A6.
• Read an alternative selection provided in your
  handout. Work with your group to write a
  think-aloud based on the selection in which you
  focus on the reading skills identified in Lesson
  2.
• Be prepared to share your think-aloud.

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Looking at the Lessons

• Lesson 3
• Cause and Effect
• Visual Media

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What Is Visual Media?

• Photographs
• Drawings, graphics, and/or illustrations
  (traditional illustrations, graphic
  representations, graphs, text types, cartoons,
  websites
• Television and film

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Creating a Personal Timeline

• Look at the examples of timelines provided.
• Create a timeline.
• Use scale.
• Add significant events.
• Illustrate a few events.

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Looking at the Lessons

• Lesson 4
• Cause and Effect
• Note Taking
• Main Idea/Details
• Descriptive Writing

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Descriptive Writing

• Select an event from your timeline.
• Brainstorm sensory details about the event.
• Write a short narrative about the event using
  sensory details.

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Looking at the Lessons

• Lesson 5
• Note Taking
• Main Idea/Details
• Prepositional Phrases

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Looking at the Lessons

• Lesson 6
• Summarization
• Note Cards
• Oral Retells
• Strong lead

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Looking at the Lessons

• Lesson 7
• Summarization
• Revise topic sentence, organization, extraneous
  material
• Edit, proofread
• Oral Retells

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Looking at the Lessons

• Lessons 8-9
• Text Coding
• ? ? !
• Reading Response

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Looking at the Lessons

• Lesson 10
• Literature Circles
• Unit Test

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Assessment Opportunities

• Ongoing informal assessment
• Personal timelines
• Summaries (B12)
• Oral retells (B9)
• Unit test (A16, B17)

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Assessment Opportunities

• My Writing/Notebook (B18)
• Reading response (B13)
• Student self-evaluations (B16)
• Other practice activities
• Additional options lesson/unit review questions
  and other social studies resource material

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Major Concepts and Skills

• Reading and Comprehending Expository Text
• Using Visual Media

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Major Concepts and Skills

• Identifying Main Idea/Details
• Note Taking
• Summarizing
• Speaking Skills

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Major Concepts and Skills

• Descriptive Writing
• imagery/sensory details
• Grammar/Conventions
• prepositional phrases
• reteach/reinforce those needed by your students
  (Lessons 8 and 9)

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Adaptations

• Limited Resources
• Using the Basal

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Limited Resources

• Assign small groups sections of the textbook to
  read.
• Have students write a think-aloud, summarize,
  and/or answer text-provided questions.
• Have students teach the class by presenting a
  think-aloud on the section.

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Using the Basal

• Choose a selection for instruction/concept
  development.
• Pre- and during reading skills
• Main idea and details
• Note taking
• Summarization

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Using the Basal

• Choose selection(s) for students to read
  independently and complete practice activities.
• Identification of main idea/details
• Note taking
• Summarization
• Illustration
• Oral retell

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Using the Basal

• Illustration and Oral Retell
• Accompany summary
• Most interesting
• Surprising
• Favorite part
• Think-Aloud as an Alternative

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Using the Basal

• Text Coding/Reading Response/Literature Circles
• Select related article(s).
• Magazine
• Web site www.timeforkids.com www.sikids.com
  www.nationalgeographic.com/ngforkids.com
• Newspaper
• Classroom subscriptions
• Use basal selection and Post-it notes.