This cluster includes the following access points.
| Access Point Number |
Access Point Title |
| LAFS.1.RI.2.AP.4a: | Ask questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words in a text. |
| LAFS.1.RI.2.AP.4b: | Answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words in a text. |
| LAFS.1.RI.2.AP.4c: | Ask questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of phrases in a text. |
| LAFS.1.RI.2.AP.4d: | Answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of phrases in a text. |
| LAFS.1.RI.2.AP.5a: | Identify text features to aid comprehension. |
| LAFS.1.RI.2.AP.5b: | Use text features to aid comprehension. |
| LAFS.1.RI.2.AP.5c: | Identify and use various text features (e.g., bold text, titles) to locate key facts or information in a text. |
| LAFS.1.RI.2.AP.6a: | Identify the information provided by pictures or other illustrations in a text. |
| LAFS.1.RI.2.AP.6b: | Identify the information provided by words in a text. |
| LAFS.1.RI.2.AP.6c: | Compare and contrast the information provided by pictures or other illustrations in a text. |
| LAFS.1.RI.2.AP.6d: | Compare and contrast the information provided by words in a text. |
Vetted resources educators can use to teach the concepts and skills in this topic.
| Name |
Description |
| Purposeful Parts: Exploring the Parts of a Book, Part 2: | Explore the parts of a book in this interactive tutorial. Join Li as she learns to locate and use the text features on the title page, table of contents, and glossary in informational books.
This is part 2 of a 2-part series. Click HERE to open Part 1. |
| Purposeful Parts: Exploring the Parts of a Book, Part 1: | Explore the parts of a book in this interactive tutorial. Join Li as she learns to locate and use the text features on the title page and table of contents in informational books.
This is part 1 of a 2-part series. Click HERE to open Part 2. |
| Text Features: Titles and Headings: | Use titles and headings to predict the topic of informational text and to find specific information within the text in this interactive tutorial. |
| What's the Topic? Part 2: Illustrations and Photographs: | Use titles, headings, illustrations, and photographs to predict and confirm the topics of texts in this interactive tutorial. Join Jose' as he explores the text features of informational text in his search for new books on a variety of topics.
This is part 2 of a 2-part series. Click HERE to open What's the Topic? Part 1: Titles and Headings. |
| What's the Topic? Part 1: Titles and Headings: | Use titles and headings to predict and confirm the topics of texts in this interactive tutorial. Join Jose' as he reviews the parts of a book and explores the text features of informational text in his search for new books on a variety of topics.
This is part 1 of a 2-part series. Click HERE to open What's the Topic? Part 2: Illustrations and Photographs. |
| Fishing For Information: | Identify information found in the illustrations and the words in a text with this interactive ocean-themed tutorial. |
| Name |
Description |
| Discovering Chicks: | Did you know that chickens are amazing animals? You will after reading the book, From Egg to Chicken by Gerald Legg. Students will identify nonfiction text features, answer text-dependent questions, and sequence the life cycle of a chicken. They will then compose an expository piece of writing about what they've learned in during these reading lessons. |
| Animals and their Habitats: | In this lesson, students will explore different types of habitats and what animals need to live. This lesson begins with a read aloud of the text The Magic School Bus Hops Home: A Book about Animal Habitats and the class will collaboratively make an anchor chart about the diverse habitats we have on earth. Students will choose an animal to research and write an expository writing piece to share their learning. This research project will conclude with students showing their creativity by making a diorama of their habitat out of a shoebox. |
| Text Feature Hunt: | Using nonfiction texts, students will be able to identify and locate text features and explain how they help the reader better understand the text. They will engage in a variety of activities to search for and use text features. |
| Becoming Earth Savers by Helping Out: | This lesson focuses on using text features to understand nonfiction text, specifically the Scholastic News Nonfiction Reader: Helping Out by Peggy Hock. The students will examine the particular text features found within the text and will organize the information read in a concept map. They will then use the concept map to write an expository paragraph about ways we can protect Earth. |
| Learning About Community Helpers: | Students will learn about the important jobs of the community helpers in their city or neighborhood. After reading Whose Tools Are These? and Helpers in Your Neighborhood, they will write an expository paragraph about a helper of their choice. |
| Using National Geographic Reader: Frogs! To Explore Topic and Detail: | This unit focuses on using text features to understand non-fiction text, specifically National Geographic Reader: Frogs! by Elizabeth Carney. The students will participate in a whole group activity where a portion of text will be analyzed for its topic and details and the teacher will write a paragraph about it using shared writing. The students will then apply the skills they learned as they create a topic and detail table and write an expository paragraph. |
| Name That Fruit!: | In this lesson, students, will read three informational texts about fruit. Students will identify key ideas and details in each text and use illustrations to help them identify the key ideas. This lesson also incorporates a science standard that asks students to sort objects by color, shape, and size. After reading each text, students will participate in several hands-on activities to sort fruit. |
| Text Detectives Investigate Meat Eating Plants: | In this lesson, students will identify the text features of non-fiction books and use several informational texts on meat-eating plants to answer text dependent questions. Students will become "text detectives" and learn how to use the text to find the evidence to prove that their answers to questions are right. The students will learn to use evidence from informational texts to write explanatory paragraphs. |
| I'm Seeing Starfish: | In this lesson, students will work with two texts, Starfish by Edith Thacher Hurd and Discovering Starfish by Lorijo Metz. As they learn facts about starfish, they will also discuss an important text feature that readers use. Students will write an expository paragraph about starfish to culminate their learning. |
| Studying Text Features with Polar Bears: | This lesson focuses on using text features to understand nonfiction text, specifically the National Geographic Reader: Polar Bears, by Laura Marsh. The students will use a text features anchor chart to support student understanding of how these features contribute to the meaning of a text. Students will read and take notes to answer specific questions about the text and use those notes to write a paragraph about polar bears. |
Vetted resources students can use to learn the concepts and skills in this topic.
| Title |
Description |
| Purposeful Parts: Exploring the Parts of a Book, Part 2: | Explore the parts of a book in this interactive tutorial. Join Li as she learns to locate and use the text features on the title page, table of contents, and glossary in informational books.
This is part 2 of a 2-part series. Click HERE to open Part 1. |
| Purposeful Parts: Exploring the Parts of a Book, Part 1: | Explore the parts of a book in this interactive tutorial. Join Li as she learns to locate and use the text features on the title page and table of contents in informational books.
This is part 1 of a 2-part series. Click HERE to open Part 2. |
| Text Features: Titles and Headings: | Use titles and headings to predict the topic of informational text and to find specific information within the text in this interactive tutorial. |
| What's the Topic? Part 2: Illustrations and Photographs: | Use titles, headings, illustrations, and photographs to predict and confirm the topics of texts in this interactive tutorial. Join Jose' as he explores the text features of informational text in his search for new books on a variety of topics.
This is part 2 of a 2-part series. Click HERE to open What's the Topic? Part 1: Titles and Headings. |
| What's the Topic? Part 1: Titles and Headings: | Use titles and headings to predict and confirm the topics of texts in this interactive tutorial. Join Jose' as he reviews the parts of a book and explores the text features of informational text in his search for new books on a variety of topics.
This is part 1 of a 2-part series. Click HERE to open What's the Topic? Part 2: Illustrations and Photographs. |
| Fishing For Information: | Identify information found in the illustrations and the words in a text with this interactive ocean-themed tutorial. |
