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5th
Grade
From Bees to Honey FIRST
DAY
Before
reading
What’s
For Reading? (see GRTFBW, page 58)
Text Strategy: Understanding Informational
Text Structure
During
reading
While
you are previewing and reading the charts, graphs, captions under the
pictures, etc., think about if the passage is an example of fiction or
nonfiction writing.
After
reading
Explain.
Which kinds of organization does the author use?
5th Grade
From Bees to Honey SECOND
and THIRD DAY
DAY TWO – read the first half of the story
DAY THREE – read the second half of the story
Before
reading
Begin
a KWL (see GRTFBW chapter 8,pages 84-90)
One of the most popular ways of helping children
connect prior knowledge and make predictions for informational text is
the KWL. The letters stand for what you Know, what you Want
to find out, and what you have Learned. Lead the class to brainstorm
what they already know about the topic. Then they talk about what they
want to know, and brainstorm questions they think might be answered by
the text they are about to read.
During
reading
Today
we are going to read a book about beekeepers. There is a lot of information
about beekeepers in the book. We are going to learn a lot of things about
beekeepers. Your purpose during reading is to see which of their questions
are answered in the text, and what new information from the text can be
added to the L column of the KWL chart. If they finish reading before
time is up, the students can write down information they want to add to
the L column.
After reading
When time is up, the teacher gathers the
students together, and they begin the after reading part of the lesson.
Teacher should lead the students in a discussion of what they have learned.
All this information is recorded in a three-column chart. Read the questions
in the W column and decide if they have found the answers to any of these
questions. Then the children tell other things they have learned. This
activity is done with the book closed so that the children have to summarize
what they have learned and not just tell back every fact in the book.
If there is a disagreement about what was learned, the teacher puts it
in a form of a question in the W column and tells the students they can
try to resolve this when they read the next day.
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