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Main Ideas in Informational Text: Analyzing a Firsthand Human Rights Account Lesson PlanMain Ideas in Informational Text: Analyzing a Firsthand Human Rights Account Lesson Plan
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Main Ideas in Informational Text: Analyzing a Firsthand Human Rights Account

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Although this is part of a series, lesson plan nine has your class take a break from their close study of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) text to read the firsthand account “Teaching Nepalis to Read, Plant, and Vote” by Lesley Reed. Though this text is simpler than the UDHR, your young readers will continue to use their close reading strategies as they read. Quickly review close reading strategies such as chunking, questioning, and annotating; modeling it with paragraph one. Next, allow your class to work their way through the rest of the article independently. As with all lessons in this unit, Lesson 9 contains some excellent prompts to foster discussion and to focus your pupils' thinking.  

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main ideas, supporting details, human rights, the universal declaration of human rights, reading nonfiction, context clues

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Grade
5th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
1 hr
Instructional Strategies
Collaborative Learning
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Year
2013
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Creative Commons
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Common Core

RI.5.2 RI.5.3 RI.5.4

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