Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Explicit information in a text, like its content and structure, can be used to draw conclusions and support inferences.
- Text can be structured in different ways, depending on the type of information that is being communicated.
- A text that follows a comparison and contrast structure will describe how two or more things are alike or different.
- Problem and solution text structure describes a problem and how the problem was solved or could be solved.
- Claim and evidence structure proposes a particular claim, then provides evidence to support the claim.
- Cause and effect text structure describes an event (the cause) and the consequence or result of the event (the effect).
- A description text structure describes a topic by listing characteristics, features, attributes, and examples.
- Sequencing text structure presents ideas or events in the order in which they happen.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Identify the structure of informational texts, including comparison and contrast, problem and solution, claims and evidence, cause and effect, description, and sequencing.
- Make inferences and draw conclusions from the content and structure of informational texts.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Informational text provides explicit information in its content and structure that can be used to draw conclusions and support inferences.
- Informational text generally follows a particular structure, and identifying this structure can help them better comprehend and analyze the text.
Vocabulary
- Inferences
- Logical conclusions
- Content
- Structures
- Informational text
- Comparison and contrast
- Problem and solution
- Claims and evidence
- Cause and effect
- Description
- Sequencing
