18 | Unit 1 LANGUAGE & LITERACY CONNECT TO Reading Informational text Read. What words do you know? An informational text gives you information about a topic. A science article on a science website is an informational text. READING STRATEGY What do you know? Identify the words you know. What do they tell you about the text? Listen to the teacher. Listen to your classmates. Be polite. Say “Please” and “Thank you.” Work together. Work hard. Ask questions. Come to class on time. Do your best. Have fun! CLASSROOM RULES Reading 18 eighteen | Unit 1 Why do we read? ? ESSENTIAL QUESTION DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION Scaffold Offer concrete examples of things that are facts and opinions. Show an image of a superhero that can fly. Compare that to an image of an airplane. Point to the airplane. Say: Airplanes can fly. Is that a fact? (yes) Point to the superhero. Say: Superheroes can fly. Is that a fact? (no) Invite students to share their own examples that are either informational (contain facts) or opinions. Continue with additional examples until the concept is clear. Offer examples of informational texts such as rules for the bus, rules at a community center, rules for driving, rules on an airplane, etc. Amplify Explain that an informational text is also nonfiction. Explain that fiction means something that is not real. Point out the prefix non. Explain that this prefix creates the opposite of a word’s meaning. Offer an additional example of fiction. Say: Romeo and Juliet is a play that many people read in school. The story is about a boy and a girl who fall in love, but their families are enemies. It is an interesting story, but it is not true. Invite students to share their own examples of stories or books they know that are either informational (contain facts) or fiction. Instructional Routine: Reading p. Txxi Instructional Routine: Vocabulary p. Txxv Essential question: Why do we read? Ask students to answer the essential question. Say: When you read, you learn new information. Reading strategy: What do you know? Teacher modeling Model the reading strategy. Say: Before I read, I look for words I know. Model moving your finger quickly beneath the text in the book. Say: I don’t read every word. Teacher. I know that word. Have students find the word classmates. Informational text Discover and pre-teach vocabulary • Use the vocabulary routine to teach or review the words rules, listen, polite, work, ask, best, time, and fun. Add classroom, rules, and informational text to the academic word wall. • Discuss the words informational text. Say: Some texts give us information. The information tells us facts. Facts are things that are true. On the board, write My teacher’s name is . 2 + 2 = 4. Say: These sentences are both true. They are facts. • On the board, write. Math is easy! Say: Is this statement a fact? No. We cannot say it’s definitely true. Maybe you don’t agree; maybe other people don’t agree. This statement is an opinion. It’s a personal perspective. It isn’t a fact. Classroom Rules • Understand what makes a text informational Read the title aloud. Point back to classroom, rules, and informational text on the academic word wall. Say: This informational reading tells us how to behave in the classroom. • Read the text aloud or play the audio. Have students follow along in a whisper read. • Say: These are rules for school. Are they facts or opinion? (facts) So, this text is . (informational) EXPLORE AND LEARN UNIT 1 / CONNECT TO READING | 48
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