2Nd Grade: Readers Learn from Informational Reading, Unit 3

Reading Unit of Study

2nd Grade: Readers Learn from Informational Reading, Unit 3

Table of Contents

Chart: Ways We Think About Informational Text 1

Chart: What is the Author’s Purpose? 2

Make your Club Talk Rock! 3

Class Checklist for Readers Read Pattern Books 4

Chart: Ways We Think About Informational Text

· Retell to partner using words like: “first, next, however…”

· Ask, “What does this mean?” and answer, “I am thinking” questions.

· Study the pictures and connect text.

· Jot their questions, “This makes me wonder…”, “This is just like…”, “This makes me want to know…”

Chart: What is the Author’s Message?

Read a bit and ask, “What do I think or feel?”

Read a bit more and ask, “Now what am I thinking?”

Decide why the author wrote the book.

Chart: Make Your Club Talk Rock!

Pick a big idea post-it

Decide on which post-it to start with.

Talk as long as you can about it.

Repeat with the next big idea.

2nd Grade Unit of Study

Class Checklist – Readers Learn from Informational Reading

Unit 3 Observation Checklist-Assessment

Skills and Strategies to Assess
Name / Readers get their mind ready to read informational text. / Readers organize their thinking by using the headings and topic sentence. / Readers retell information learned from informational text. / Readers ask and answer questions about informational text. / Readers use the pictures to clarify meaning. / Readers identify the author’s purpose. / Readers problem solve content specific words. / Readers compare and contrast a topic across text. / Readers get their mind ready to read informational text.