Nonfiction Unit
Nonfiction Unit Skills:
- Text and Genre Features/Structure - using text and genre features or structure to locate and recognize important information
- Recognizing the genre of nonfiction
- Drawing conclusions based on the text and illustrations
- Determining Importance - using text features, cues, and structures to identify key ideas and important information
- Finding author’s point of view
- Finding the key reason/main reason in the text
- Showing your evidence for your answers in the text
- Answering comprehension questions about the text
- Finding Word Meaning (Vocabulary) - using background knowledge and context clues to figure out the meaning of unfamiliar words
- Solving words within the text based on what clues are around it
- Making Inferences - using prior knowledge and textual information to draw conclusions, make predictions, and analyze texts
- Finding the author’s purpose
- Using information from the text and using what you know to answer a question
Synthesizing - combining textual information with existing knowledge to summarize texts or form new ideas or opinions
nonfiction_unit_skills__1_.pdf |
Nonfiction Practice:
nonfiction_reading_comprehension_practice.pdf |