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El Education: Learning to Read Informational Texts: Building Background WebsiteEl Education: Learning to Read Informational Texts: Building Background Website
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EL Education
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1st - 2nd
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English Language Arts
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Lexile Measures
1290L
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El Education: Learning to Read Informational Texts: Building Background

Curated by ACT

In this comprehensive unit, students launch their learning about birds by using informational texts. As students read these texts, they build background knowledge and develop their skills as readers of informational texts. Included are guiding questions, an assessment, multimedia links, lesson extensions, support for ELL students, and content connections for science.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

birds

Additional Tags

connections, oh.ela-literacy.ri.1.3 describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text., informational text about science

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional

Common Core

RI.2.8 RL.1.6 RI.1.7 RI.1.2 RI.1.10 RI.2.2 RI.2.9 RI.1.6 RI.2.6 RI.1.8 RI.1.9 RL.2.7 RI.1.3 RI.2.7 RI.2.4 RI.2.10 RF.1.4.a RF.2.4.b RL.1.5 RL.2.2

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