Comments on: Determining Importance in Nonfiction Text https://imaginationsoup.net/determining-importance-nonfiction/ | Best Children's Books Tue, 09 Feb 2021 04:52:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Melissa Taylor https://imaginationsoup.net/determining-importance-nonfiction/comment-page-1/#comment-432198 Wed, 17 Jan 2018 18:23:31 +0000 https://imaginationsoup.net/?p=28921#comment-432198 In reply to Elana.

I would scaffold QAR questions, starting with a “right there” question — https://education.ky.gov/curriculum/conpro/engla/Documents/RF_LS_8_Handouts.pdf — one that can be answered in the text. Start with only one of the Ws — What is this about? Once the kids get the hang of that, you can move on to 1 more question — maybe when.
Model how you would do it being sure you think aloud what your thought process is. (Hmm, I see a picture of a person. Also, I notice the title is about weeds and flowers. I’m wondering what this is about? A person or a plant?)
Does that help?

]]> By: Elana https://imaginationsoup.net/determining-importance-nonfiction/comment-page-1/#comment-432193 Wed, 17 Jan 2018 17:29:23 +0000 https://imaginationsoup.net/?p=28921#comment-432193 I am at the beginning of my internship with second grade and have to teach a lesson on RI. 2.1. : Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate an understanding of key details in a text. My cooperating teacher and I have planned according to the Curriculum framework, so I have to use a text from their reading unit. I believe it is Reading Street by Scott Foresman. We decided on using comprehension text coding for the students to do while they read the text. I noticed the students are having difficulty forming their questions and do not quite understand what each question stands for. Any suggestions on how I could start the lesson and give them practice before jumping into a long text on their own. The genre of the text is science, innovation, and engineering. I am doing the text called, “A Weed Is a Flower” the life of George Washington Carver.

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