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2. In today’s session we will: • Get ready to read by thinking about what you know about a topic and setting a purpose for reading. • Learnhow to use text features to help you get ready to read an informational text. • Ask and answer questions you develop to help you learn about the topic you are reading. • Discoverhow much we read informational text every day.

3. Why Are We Focusing on Informational Text? • Between 50 and 80 percent of all standardized tests students take will be an informative-type text. • By sixth grade, more than 50 percent of reading in school is going to be informational text. Most of what adults read on and off the job is informational text (Venezky, 2000). • We need to prepare students for the kinds of reading expected in both college and the workplace.

4. What’s the Difference between Fiction and Informational Text?

5. Informational texts include all kinds of nonfiction. We read informational texts to: • Increase our knowledge about a topic. • Understand how things work and why things happen.

6. LET’S FIND OUT! WEATHER HISTORY $100 $200 Board Completed?

7. You want to learn more about the different kinds of clouds you find in the sky… Answer

8. Cloud Formations on Internet, Cloud Books, Weather Books Return to Main Board

9. You want to read about the life of George Washington… Answer

10. Biographies, Books on the Presidency

11. Let’s Find Out • Locate the Let’s Find Out handout. • Choose three or four information boxes on the handout • Write down as many sources you can think of to locate this information.

12. THANKS FOR PLAYING LET’S FIND OUT! WEATHER HISTORY WINNER

13. Think about what you know about the subject BEFORE you start reading. • Set a purpose for reading the chapter, book, or article. Students can also set their own purpose for reading. Let’s Get Started

14. What to do before you start reading.. Use the informational text book you selected and locate the Thinking Guide handout. Think about what you may already know about the topic you have chosen. Write down two or three things you already know or think you know. Look at the What I Want to Know column. Write down two or three things you want to know more about as you read the book.

15. Table of Contents Timelines Bold Print Text Features Maps Titles & Headings Glossary

16. Table of Contents

17. Titles/Headings

18. Practice Using Titles & Subheadings • Choose any chapter in your informational text book. • Locate the Titles & Subheadings handout • Use the Title and Subheadings to createquestions about the text. • Go back into the text to find the EXACT answers to the questions you created.

19. Share Your Answers Choose a partner/pair at your table and share both your questions and your answers with your partner/pair.

20. Bold Print Italicized Print

21. Glossary

22. Maps

23. Timelines

24. Seek & Find Text Features Let’s use your informational text book again. Locate the “Informational Text Features” handout. Look at the “Informational Text Features” sheet and check off all the text features you find in your informational text book. When you are looking through the text features, look for a fact you did not know and share that fact and its location with your tablemates.

25. Share the Fact You Did Not Know Share a fact that you did not know with your tablemates and tell them where you found that information in the book.

26. What have you learned? Go back to your Thinking Guide handout. Look back at what you knew about the topic you have explored and what you wanted to know as well. Did you learn more about your topic? Go to the what I learned section and write down three new things you learned as you looked at the text features found in your book.

27. Pair/Share Share your findings with a partner at your table.

28. What to Do When You Are Stuck! Do you understand what you just read? If you don’t go back into the text and ask questions. • What do I already know about this topic? • How can the text features help me understand what I am reading? • Am I using the glossary to help me with the new vocabulary words? • Do I need to reread some of these pages? • Can I turn titles into headings to ask myself questions I can answer about what I just read?

29. What if Your Text Doesn’t Have a Text Feature that You Need? Examples: • Table of Contents • Glossary • Timeline • Index • Key Words/Guide Words • Titles/Headings

30. Always Look For Different Points of View • Read several articles and/or books on the same subject so that you will be able to learn more about the topic. • Think about why the author wrote this kind of book. • When you read about a topic written by more than one author, you learn how authors can think differently about a topic.

31. Additional Resources to Use • 3-2-1 Strategy Chart • Text Feature Notes • 10 Tips for Reading Nonfiction with Your Child

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