10(B) Retell Important Facts in Informational/Expository Text (Readiness)

Reading/Comprehension of Informational Text/Expository Text
K	1	2	3	4	5
10(B) retell important facts in a text, heard or read	14(B) identify important facts or details in text, heard or read	14(B) locate the facts that are clearly stated in a text	13(B) draw conclusions from the facts presented in text and support those assertions with textual evidence	11(B) distinguish fact from opinion in  a text and explain how to verify what is a fact	11(B) determine the facts in text and verify them through established methods
retell important facts in a text heard retell important facts in a text read

Activities:

• CoonectED - Animated Comprehension Lesson-Retell/Summarize 
• Spanish - Lecciones Animadas de Comprension-Resumir
• Make a movie in your head to visualize and retell important facts in the text heard or read
• Use a Flow Map as a visual to retell information in the text
• Use copies of some of the photographs to retell importants facts.  Then some of the students can write about the photographs during writer's workshop.
• BEFORE READING VOCABULARY:  Pick words that describe important facts and photographs to match the word.  To pre-teach/introduce vocabulary, students will read the word and match to the photograph.

Anchor Stations:

• Place this activity in an anchor station. BEFORE READING VOCABULARY:  Pick words that describe important facts and photographs to match the word.  To pre-teach/introduce vocabulary, students will read the word and match to the photograph. 

10(A) Topic and Details in Expository (Readiness)

Reading/Comprehension of Informational Text/Expository Text
K	1	2	3	4	5
10(A) identify the topic and details in expository text heard or read, referring to the words and/or illustrations.	14(A) restate the main idea, heard or read.	14(A) identify the mamin idea in a text and distinguish it fromthe topic	13(A) identify the details or facts that suppport the main idea	11(A) summarize the main idea and supporting  details in text in ways that maintain meaning	11(A) summarize the main ideas and supporting details in a text in ways that maintain meaning and logical order
identify the topic in expository text heard referring to the words identify the topic in expository text heard referring to the illustrations Identify the topic in expository text read referring to the words identify the details in expository text hear referring to the words Identify the topic in expository text read referring to the illustrations identify the details in expository text hear referring to the illustrations identify the details in expository text read referring to the words identify the details in expository text read referring to the illustrations

Activities:

• ConnectED - Animated Comprehension Lesson (Main Idea and Details)/Lecciones Animadas de Comprension (Idea principal y detalles)
• RATT - Using Nonfiction Exploration Big Book from book adoption "Treasures",  students will identify the topic and details as the teacher reads.
• During or after reading, as a whole class, teacher will guide students in completing a Tree Map to Classify or a Bubble Map to describe the topic with details.
• Headings- Teacher pre-writes headings on sentence strips.  Then covers the headings on the book with sticky notes. Read the sections under the headings to the class.  The the students have to pick the correct heading by referring to the words and/or illustrations.
• Read, Cover, Retell - turn to your partner and share
• FREEZE - students get up and act out the topic and details of the text

Anchor Stations: