IINTEGRATED LESSON TEMPLATE
Lesson Name: / Lesson Name: Teaching features of nonfictionSubject/s: / Language Arts
Grade Level: / 2-4
Content Standard/s: / Reading Applications: Informational, Technical and Persuasive text
2nd grade
#1- Use table of contents, glossary captions and illustrations to identify information and to comprehend text.
#5 Identify information in diagrams, charts, graphs and maps
3rd grade
#1 Use table of contents, chapter headings, glossary, index, captions and illustrations to locate information.
#4 Draw conclusions from informational maps, charts, graphs and diagrams
4th grade
#1 Use text features, such as chapter titles, headings and subheadings: parts of a book including the index and table of contents to locate information
#5 Analyze information found in maps, charts tables, graphs and diagrams
Technology Standard/s: / To use imput devices
Materials: / A collection of nonfiction books
Features of nonfiction Power Point
Nonfiction student booklet
Specific book titles listed in procedures (of course these can be substituted with any book that will meet criteria needed).
Venn diagram transparency or on chart paper
Transparencies made of student booklet
Quick Look worksheet
Chart paper for brainstorming
Post-its
Procedure: / Lesson 1 Comparing fiction and nonfiction
· Read Where Does the Butterfly Go When It Rains? by May Garelick (fiction).
· Discuss whether this book is fiction or nonfiction and why.
· Use a transparency of a Venn diagram to list what students know about fiction.
· Share the book Insects-Go Facts published by Newbridge (nonfiction)
· Discuss what you know about nonfiction.
· Use the Venn diagram to list what you know about nonfiction.
· Use the Venn diagram to list comparisons between fiction and nonfiction.
· List what is the same about fiction and nonfiction.
· Introduce the student nonfiction booklet.
Lesson 2- What is nonfiction?
· Present PowerPoint Features of Nonfiction and discuss with students.· Read A Monarch’s Butterfly’s Life by John Himmelman (narrative nonfiction) that is read front to back like a story.
· Share the book Insects from yesterday. Discuss that it has a table of contents to locate a specific topic.
· Model how to complete What is nonfiction page in student booklet. Students list a few titles that they enjoyed on What is nonfiction page in their booklet.
· Whole group reconvenes: What features did you notice in your study?
Lesson 3- Table of contents
( The table of contents helps the reader identify key topics in the book in the order they are presented)· Discuss and compare the difference between a table of contents in fiction and nonfiction.
· Share the table of contents from several nonfiction books.
· Model how to complete table of contents page for the student booklet.
· Students choose one nonfiction book and complete page in student booklet.
Lesson 4- Index
(The index is an alphabetical list of almost everything covered in the text, with page numbers.)· Ask students what an index is used for in a nonfiction book. Discuss the features of an index. For example, it is arranged in alphabetical order, page numbers and the meaning of a hyphen).
· Share indexes from several nonfiction books.
· Model how to complete the index page in the student booklet.
· Students choose one nonfiction book with an index and complete index page for student booklet.
Lesson 5- Glossary
(A glossary helps the reader understand the meaning of words that appear in the text.)· Ask students what a glossary is used for in a nonfiction book. Discuss the features of a glossary. For example it is arranged in alphabetical order and it explains the meaning of specialized words or phrases used in the book.
· Share glossaries from several nonfiction books.
· Model how to complete the glossary page in the student book.
· Make sure students understand it is to be written in alphabetical order.
· Students choose a nonfiction book that has a glossary and complete the page in the student booklet.
Lesson 6- Types of print
(Sometimes words in the text are printed in bold or italic letters. This helps the reader by saying to them, “ Look at me! I’m important! .“)· After discussing and sharing the types of print found in several nonfiction books ask students to help chart what features of print they noticed. Use post-its to highlight features of print in the books shared i.e. (bold print, colored print, all caps, italics, bullets. titles headings subheadings, labels, and captions).
· Model how to complete the types of print page in the student notebook.
· Students choose one nonfiction book that has several types of print and writes examples on the student booklet page.
Lesson 7- Photographs and captions
(Photographs help the reader understand exactly what something looks like. Captions help the reader better understand a picture or photograph).· Share several nonfiction books that feature photographs and captions. Discuss the importance of why captions are used to support pictures or photographs.
· Have students locate a book with a photograph and caption they would like included in their student booklet. Use a post-it to mark their photo in a nonfiction book.
· The teacher copies the photo for the student to be included in the booklet.
Lesson 8- Maps
(Maps help the reader understand where things are in the world.)· Read a loud Me On the Map then share the Children’s Atlas of the World in addition to any other books that feature maps.
· Discuss different types of maps and what they are used for.
· Using map page in student booklet students will draw a map for example, the classroom, their neighborhood, their bedroom or house and etc. They should label their map.
Lesson 9- Labels
(Labels help the reader identify a picture and/or its parts.)· Ask students why labels are used to aid in identifying pictures or photographs. Discuss how it helps the reader understand something more completely.
· Share several examples from nonfiction books.
· Model how to complete the label page of the student booklet.
· Students select one nonfiction book and complete student page.
Lesson 10- Close-ups and cutaways
Close-ups help the reader see details in something small. Cutaways help the reader understand something from looking inside.)· Discuss what close-up and cutaways are and how they are used in nonfiction books to help the reader.
· Have students locate one of the above in the nonfiction collection and draw their example in their booklet. Or a copy could be scanned and printed and then glued in their booklet.
Lesson 11- Comparisons
(Comparisons help the reader understand the size of one thing by comparing it to the size of something familiar.)· Discuss what it means to make a comparison. Brainstorm words that illustrate a comparison (big-little, fat-thin, tall-short, etc.)
· Read The Littlest Dinosaurs and share comparisons from the Amazing Dinosaurs.
Students illustrate a comparison by drawing an example in their booklet.
Lesson 12- Reviewing features of nonfiction· As a group brainstorm a list of nonfiction features and define.
· Have students share examples from their booklets that they have located.
· Discuss how this will help them understand nonfiction.
· Use Nonfiction Quick look sheet. Have students choose a nonfiction book that they have not used before and write down all the features of nonfiction they find in the book.
Evaluation: / Completed student booklet
Completed Quick Look Sheet
Participation in discussion
Prepared by: Jane Galbraith