Reading/Social Studies

Concept: LA.4.6.1.1 The student will read informational text and text features (e.g. format, graphics, legends, illustrations, diagrams) to organize information for different purposes (e.g. being informed, following multi-step directions, creating a report, conducting interviews, preparing to take a test, performing a task).	Concept: 4.RI.3.9 Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.	Concept: 4.SL.1.3 Identify the reasons and evidence a speaker provides to support particular points.
Lesson Focus Questions: How can reading informational text and text features help you to organize information for different purposes?	Lesson Focus Questions: How can integrating information from two texts help you to write or speak knowledgeably about a subject?	Lesson Focus Questions: Why is it important to have reasons and evidence to support particular points?
Vocabulary: informational text, text features, organize	Vocabulary: integrating, knowledgeably	Vocabulary: Reasons, evidence, support

Concept: 4.SL.2.4 Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.	Concept: 4.SL.2.5 Add audio recordings and visual displays to presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.	Concept:
Lesson Focus Questions: How can you effectively report on a topic/text, tell a story or recount an experience?	Lesson Focus Questions: How can adding audio recordings and/or visual displays to presentations enhance the main idea and/or themes?	Lesson Focus Questions
Vocabulary: Effectively, report, recount, experience, appropriate, relevant, understandable pace	Vocabulary: Audio recordings, visual displays, presentations, enhance	Vocabulary:

Helpful Reading Strategies:

-UNRAVEL

U- Underline the Title

N- Now make a prediction about the passage.

R- Run through and number the paragraphs. (If there are too many, skip this step.)A-Are you reading the questions and circling the important words before reading? This way you know what to look for.

V-Venture through the story. (In other words-Read it!!)

E-Eliminate answers that don’t make sense.

L-Let the questions be answered!! Double check your answers

-Symbolic Coding- Smiley=Already Knew; Exclamation Mark=New Information/This surprised me; Question Mark= I am confused about this; Letter C= I have a connection to this part of the text

- Rereading the text several times

- Asking questions

- Clarifying words using context clues (Context clues are words/clues around an unfamiliar that help define it.)


Social Studies Focus: Exploration