Explicit Information 1st Grade Unit
Lessons
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Give students a copy of the book Frogs by Gail Gibbons and have students complete the Frog Diagram worksheet. (See Additional Activities A in Teacher and Student Materials below.)
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Have students identify the information they learned on each page of an independent reading book by writing one fact per page on an index card.
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Have students show where they found information in a book by placing a sticky note on the appropriate page.
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Give students a list of topics and ask them to find a nonfiction book in the classroom or school library that would provide information about one of those topics.
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Provide explicit information question sheets (teacher-created) for guided and independent reading books.
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As a class, write a letter to another class explaining what was learned about a topic.
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Students can create “curiosity cards.” On an index card, have students draw a picture or write a question about a topic before a read aloud session. Following the read aloud session, have students write the answer to their question using information from the text.
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Provide students with multiple books on a social studies topic and ask students to use a KWL chart (What do I Know? What do I Want to know? What did I Learn?) to generate a list of information they already know and questions they would like to find the answers to. Ask students to use books to find the answers to their questions and record their answers on their KWL charts.
- Fountas and Pinnell
- L
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- 230L
- Fountas and Pinnell
- O
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- 490L
- Fountas and Pinnell
- K
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- 630L
- Fountas and Pinnell
- J
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- 460L
- Fountas and Pinnell
- I
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- 130L
