Grade 4 Lesson 3

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Lesson Plan

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Student Activity Handout 1 (Text Features Handout)

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Student Activity Handout 2 (Directions to Marlins Park)

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Marlins Think Tank: Fourth Grade Language Arts Lesson Plan #3

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OBJECTIVE. What is your objective?

KEY POINTS. What knowledge and skills are embedded in the objective?

Student will be able to:

1. RI.4.7. Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g., in charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages) and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the text in which it appears (text features)

1. Text features help students understand

nonfiction text. 2. Authors include text features to help the

reader better understand what they have read.

3. Text features provide information that may not be written in the text itself.

4. Text features can be found in textbooks, magazine articles, newspapers, reports, web pages, and other forms of nonfiction text.

ASSESSMENT. Describe, briefly, what students will do to show you that they have mastered (or made progress toward) the objective.

Students will be able to create their own map (utilizing text features) and identify the text features present on a partner’s map.

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OPENING (10 min.) How will you communicate what is about to happen? How will you communicate how it will happen?

How will you communicate its importance? How will you communicate connections to previous lessons?

How will you engage students and capture their interest?

MATERIALS.

Look around our classroom. Where do you see a chart? A graph? A map? What kind of charts/graphs/maps do you see? What do they show you? Write at least five sentences. After students have written for five minutes, the teacher will begin: Does anyone see charts, maps, and graphs around us? Yes? Good! Today we are going to talk about text features, which are hugely important in understanding information. Today we are going to create our own maps! Literature is not just found in books. Literature can be found in brochures, maps, graphs, charts, and anywhere where a message is displayed. Today we are going to learn how to read maps and directions, and how to create our own to better understand VISUAL aids! Visual = for your eyes to see!

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INTRODUCTION OF NEW MATERIAL (20 min.) How will you explain/demonstrate all knowledge/skills required of the objective, so that students begin to

actively internalize key points?

Which potential misunderstandings do you anticipate? How will you proactively mitigate them? How will

students interact with the material?

As a class, let’s review what text features are, and the different types of text features that are all around us. While we go over the following slides, write down the TYPES of text features on your “Marlins Think Tank: Text Features” handout. Then answer the following questions:

1) Why do text features matter? What do they do for the reader? 2) What is your favorite text feature? Why?

Students may then popcorn read/choral read/listen to the teacher explain the types of text features on the following slides, which include: Table of Contents, Index, Glossary, Titles, Subheadings, Text (Bold, Color, Italics), Photographs/Illustrations, Captions, Textbox, Maps, Diagrams, Tables, and Timelines.

PowerPoint “Marlins Think Tank: Text Features” handout

GUIDED PRACTICE (10 min.) How will students practice all knowledge/skills required of the objective, with your support, such that they

continue to internalize the key points? How will you ensure that students have multiple opportunities to practice, with exercises scaffolded from

easy to hard?

As a class, let’s review the “Directions to Marlins Park” handout.

First glance: What text features do you see?

CIRCLE: Any BOLD text.

UNDERLINE: Any ITALICIZED text.

STAR: Any MAPS.

Quick discussion: Why do you thinks the maps were included in these directions? How do they aid the reader’s understanding?

PowerPoint “Directions to Marlins Park” handout

INDEPENDENT PRACTICE (15 min.) How will students independently practice the knowledge and skills required of the objective, such that they

solidify their internalization of the key points prior to the lesson assessment?

Now you will have the opportunity to create your own map. Your map must include at LEAST three text features that we discussed today (look at the list that you created). Here are some examples of maps you could create: 1) From your house to the park 2) From your house to school 3) From your seat to the front of the classroom 4) From our classroom to the cafeteria 5) Anything else that you can think of! You can complete your map in the blank box on your “Marlins Think Tank: Text Features” handout. Make sure that you answer the questions at the top, and that you include at LEAST three text features!

PowerPoint “Marlins Think Tank: Text Features” Handout

Lesson Assessment: Once students have had an opportunity to practice independently, how will

they attempt to demonstrate mastery of the knowledge/skills required of the objective?

Teachers will utilize the maps and the closing activity to determine if students mastered the objective: identifying text features and their significance.

CLOSING (5 min.) How will students summarize and state the significance of what they learned?

Today we covered a very important topic: text features and their importance in understanding a text. For our closing, I would like you to switch maps with a partner. Find three types of text features on their map, and write the three text features that you found at the bottom of your “Marlins Think Tank: Text Features” handout (underneath your OWN map).

PowerPoint “Marlins Think Tank: Text Features” Handout

Marlins Think Tank: Text Features Fourth Grade Lesson #3

What are text features? _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ List the Types of Text Features Here:

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1) Why do text features matter? What do they do for the reader?

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2) What is your favorite text feature? Why?

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Creating Your Own Map What will your map show?

From: _______________________________

To: _________________________________

Text Features Included (at least three):

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Closing Activity: Text Feature Hunt on a Partner’s Map. Whose map were you looking at, and which three text features did you find? _____________________________________________________________

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Driving Directions to Marlins Park

Marlins Park is located at 501 Marlins Way (NW 16th Avenue), Miami, Florida 33125. Marlins Park is less than two miles from downtown Miami, only three-quarters of a mile from the westbound SR 836 exit at 12th Avenue, and 0.4 miles from the eastbound exit at 17th Avenue. Via Interstate 95, the site is 1.25 miles from the NW 8th Street exit.

Please note: there are very specific ways to enter each of the on-site parking lots, so please note the Inbound Traffic Map so as to ensure your route is the most efficient as it corresponds to which lot you will be parking within.

Directions to Marlins Park

From The North East (Ft Lauderdale/North Miami)

Interstate 95 South to Florida State Road 836 West.

Exit NW 12th Avenue and turn Left at light.

Proceed straight, and then reference the Inbound Traffic Map to determine where to route yourself to best enter your specific pre-assigned parking lot.

From The North West (Weston/Sunrise)

Interstate 75 South and exit towards Florida State Road 826 South, Continue on FSR 826 South and then exit towards Florida State Road 836 East (left ramp, same as airport).

Continue on FSR-836 East and Exit on NW 17th Avenue (ramp is found on the far right of the toll plaza).

Turn right onto NW 17th Avenue southbound, and then reference the Inbound Traffic Map to determine where to route yourself to best enter your specific pre-assigned parking lot.

From the West (Doral)

Take Florida State Road 836 East and Exit towards NW 17th Avenue (ramp is found on the far right of the toll plaza).

Turn right onto NW 17th Avenue southbound, and then reference the Inbound Traffic Map to determine where to route yourself to best enter your specific pre-assigned parking lot.

From Downtown

Take West Flagler Street until NW 12th Avenue.

Turn Right on NW 12th Avenue.

Proceed straight, and then reference the Inbound Traffic Map to determine where to route yourself to best enter your specific pre-assigned parking lot.

From South East (Coral Gables/Coconut Grove)

Take US- 1 North to I-95 North

I-95 North to FSR 836 West.

Exit NW 12th Avenue and turn Left at light.

Proceed straight, and then reference the Inbound Traffic Map to determine where to route yourself to best enter your specific pre-assigned parking lot.

From South West (Kendall/Homestead)

Take FSR 826/Turnpike North to FSR 836 East.

Continue on FSR 836 East and Exit towards NW 17th Avenue (ramp is found on the far right of the toll plaza).

Turn right onto NW 17th Avenue southbound, and then reference the Inbound Traffic Map to determine where to route yourself to best enter your specific pre-assigned parking lot.