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Here are the teacher pack items for Reading Informational Text:
Overview In this experience, students explore the various types of organizational structures common in informational texts and then read short examples and identify each structure. Then, they preview a passage, making predictions based on the text features and organizational structures. Next, they read the passage and analyze it using their knowledge of the organizational structure. Finally, they identify the main idea and supporting details within the passage. Objectives Duration One or two class periods. Vocabulary Words in the Article
Imagine that a spaceship lands in front of you and a creature exits the ship and hands you a tablet that has words and pictures on it. What will you do? How will you determine what the creature is trying to communicate to you?
Sometimes reading earthly texts can seem just as confusing. But there are reading strategies for different types of texts. In this experience, you’ll learn more about how to read and make sense of informational texts.
Objectives
The modern world is inundated by “facts.” Television, the Internet—more information than your grandparents ever imagined—is at your fingertips with the click of a button. But there is a big difference between information and knowledge.
—Susan Zimmermann and Chryse Hutchins
What do you think the quote means? What is the difference between facts and knowledge? How can you turn facts into knowledge?
Discuss with students that facts are bits of information while knowledge is the accumulation of those facts and what you do with them. While some people may know a lot of facts, knowledge requires deep thinking about the facts and interacting with them in a meaningful way.
Reading strategies can help you turn facts into knowledge. Rather than just reading an informational passage and learning facts, you can interact with informational text to turn the facts into knowledge.
Throughout the rest of this experience, you will be gaining knowledge of informational text, including its structures and features.