Boone-Winnebago

=Boone-Winnebago Wednesday, July 9th =

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Out of the Dust- Dust Bowl

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/dust/

Ag Literacy and Common Core State Standards-Making the Connection
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Breaking down the standards:
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See Think Wonder
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====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Informational text is defined as text with the primary purpose of expressing information about the arts, sciences, or social studies. This text ranges from newspaper and magazine articles to digital information to nonfiction trade books to textbooks and reference materials. ==== ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The CCSS specify four types of informational text: literary nonfiction, expository, argument or persuasion, and procedural. -from "Booklist" article, American Library Association ==== ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Scholastic Article: The Difference Between Informational Text and Non-fiction ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Why are there text features?

 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Authors include text features to help the reader better understand what they have read. ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Text features provide information that may not be written in the text itself. ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Text features can be found in textbooks, magazine articles, newspapers, reports, web pages, and other forms of nonfiction text. ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Teaching tools for text features: []

 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bold ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Graphs ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Maps ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Illustrations ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Diagrams ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Clipart ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All Caps ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Color ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Italics ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Underline ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Highlight ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Borders ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Headings ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Table of Contents ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Insets and sidebars ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bullets ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Numbering ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Photos ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Asterisks ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Stars ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Timelines ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Glossary ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Captions and Labels ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Index ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wonderopolis
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 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What supplies do you need? ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What will you do first? ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What is the last thing you will need to do? ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Where should you do thist activity? ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What is a question you have? ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Do you think you could do this? ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What are some things that might go wrong? ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Infographic
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Have your students find each of the following in the newspaper:

 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">someone wearing glasses ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">map ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">animal ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">television listing ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">the name of your city ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">athlete ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">action word ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">television star ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">cartoon ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">story about another country ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">letter from a reader ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">movie review or ad ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Before reading:

 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Preview-Brainstorm, Predict ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Purpose-Set a purpose, Why am I reading this? ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">During reading:

 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Click-What did I learn ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Clunk-What was hard to understand? ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Connect-What did I know before that I can connect to this new information? ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Get the Gist-What is the most important person/place/thing in this section? ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After Reading

 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wrap it up-Ask questions, clarify ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Monitor for Understanding-Review, what did we learn? ====

====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">CCSS Appendix B-Examples of Informational Texts (Pages 28-35) ====

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====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How to get to Library of Congress Primary Source Theme sets ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Informational Text resources
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read.Write.Think.
====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ReadWriteThink- Building Comprehension with Informational Text ====

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To close: