Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Authors use particular informational text structures to achieve an intended purpose.
- 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.
- Cause and effect text structure describes an event (the cause) and the consequence or result of the event (the effect).
- Claim and evidence structure proposes a particular claim, then provides evidence to support the claim.
- Substantiated claims will have relevant, credible supporting evidence, while unsubstantiated claims will not.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Identify the structure of informational text.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the text structure in achieving the author's intended purpose.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Authors choose to format their informational text in a particular structure to achieve a specific purpose.
Vocabulary
- Informational text structures
- Comparison and contrast
- Problem and solution
- Cause and effect
- Substantiated claim
- Unsubstantiated claim
- Evidence
- Author's purpose
