Classroom Resource

Drawing Conclusions and Comparing/Contrasting - The Everglades

Subject Area

English Language Arts

Grade(s)

4, 5

Overview

Students take notes to determine the most important information given in a video segment and written text. They compare the information and draw written conclusions about the importance of studying the pig frog and the Everglades.

This resource supports students as they discover explicit and implicit meaning from an informational text.

English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 4

ELA21.4.21

Explain how relevant details support the implied or explicit main idea of a text.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.4.21

Vocabulary

  • Implied main idea
  • Explicit main idea
  • Relevant details

Knowledge

Students know:
  • The main idea is the most important idea presented in the text.
  • Sometimes an author will clearly state the main idea, while other times an author will merely suggest the main idea.
  • The supporting details explain the main idea or provide more information about the main idea.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Identify the implied or explicit main idea of a text.
  • Use relevant details to support the main idea of a text.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Most texts have a main idea, or most important message, and supporting details, which provide more information about the main idea.
  • An author can choose to state the main idea in the text or provide clues through details in the text to imply the main idea.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 4

ELA21.4.28

Write clear and coherent responses to texts, using explicit or implicit evidence that supports a particular point.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.4.28

Vocabulary

  • Clear
  • Coherent
  • Explicit evidence
  • Implicit evidence

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Clear and coherent writing follows a particular structure and is easily understood by readers.
  • Text-based responses should include textual evidence that is explicit (direct quotation) or implicit (summary or paraphrase).

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Respond to texts in clear, coherent writing that using textual evidence to support their points.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • They can demonstrate comprehension of text by creating clear and coherent writing that utilizes textual evidence to support points.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 5

ELA21.5.22

Determine the implied and/or explicit main idea in literary and informational texts.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.5.22

Vocabulary

  • Implied main idea
  • Explicit main idea
  • Literary text
  • Informational text

Knowledge

Students know:
  • The main idea is the most important idea presented in the text.
  • Sometimes an author will clearly state the main idea, while other times an author will merely suggest the main idea.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Identify the implied or explicit main idea of a text.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Most texts have a main idea, or most important message.
  • An author can choose to state the main idea in the text or provide clues through details in the text to imply the main idea.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 5

ELA21.5.27

Review the key ideas expressed in a text and draw conclusions, using facts to support them.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.5.27

Vocabulary

  • Key ideas
  • Conclusions
  • Facts

Knowledge

Students know:
  • New knowledge can be gained from a text by drawing conclusions from the information presented in the text.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Review key ideas presented in text.
  • Draw conclusions from key ideas presented in text.
  • Use facts from the text to support their conclusions.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • They can analyze key ideas, draw conclusions, and learn new information by reading text.
Link to Resource
https://aptv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/vtl07.la.rv.text.lpcompcont/drawing-…

CR Resource Type

Lesson/Unit Plan

Resource Provider

PBS
Accessibility

Accessibility

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License

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