S1+Harrington+Christine

=Stage 1 Identify Desired Results= A3 Informational Texts (Pre K - 2) Students read informational texts, within a grade appropriate span of text complexity, for different purposes. ||
 * **Establish Goals:** **(G)** ||
 * Maine Learning Results- English-Language Arts

//What understandings are desired?//
• nonfiction texts have several features and conventions and give information. • there are many varieties of nonfiction texts. ||
 * //Students will understand that:// **(U)** ||
 * • there is a difference between fiction and nonfiction texts.

//What essential questions will be considered?//
• What are the features and conventions of a nonfiction text and how are they used? • Why are nonfiction texts important and how do you use them? ||
 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * • What is the difference between nonfiction and fiction? Why?

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
true, facts, real, conventions, features etc...
 * //Students will know:// **(K)** || //Students will be able to:// **(S)** ||
 * • the terminology associated with nonfiction:

• the vocabulary associated with nonfiction: photograph, labels, captions, cut-aways, close ups, table of contents, index, glossary, types of print, maps, tables, and comparasions.

ie...physical characteristics, habitats, babies(reproduction), life cycles, growth, how to (sequencing), etc... || • describe the difference between fiction and nonfiction texts • compare fiction and nonfiction texts • illustrate a fact learned in a nonfiction text • create a nonfiction text using some of the nonfiction conventions/features introduced • consider the use of nonfiction texts • recognize there are a variety of nonfiction texts ||
 * key factual information from nonfiction texts


 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe**