Unit Title: Text Structure

Title and Description

This unit is titled: Text Structure

The description of the purpose of the unit is: In this unit students will define, identify, and explain 5 types of text structure. Students will explain how text and graphic features enhance a text. They will determine the type of figurative language used in a text. Students will summarize a given text.  This lesson was created by Erica Jenkins through the Nebraska BlendEd Best Practices Program.

Content Area Skill:

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Students will build and use conversational, academic, and content-specific grade level vocabulary.

Comprehension: Students will construct meaning by applying prior knowledge, using text information, and monitoring comprehension while reading increasingly complex grade-level literary and informational text.

Digital Age Skill(s):

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Innovative Designer 

Students select and use digital tools to plan and manage a design process that considers design constraints and calculated risks.

Duration of Unit:

2 weeks

Overview of Unit:

The description of the purpose of the unit is: In this unit students will define, identify, and explain 5 types of text structure. Students will explain how text and graphic features enhance a text. They will determine the type of figurative language used in a text. Students will summarize a given text.  This lesson was created by Erica Jenkins through the Nebraska BlendEd Best Practices Program.

Empower Learners:

Content Area Skills (NE and ISTE Standards):

Student Friendly Objectives:

Empower Learner Activity:

Detailed Description:

Students will use the proficiency scale to rate themselves.  They will then track their progress during and after the end of the unit. 

• Students will take a pre-assessment for text structure using Quizziz.
• Students will use the proficiency scale to rate themselves according to how they did on the quiz. Explain to the students that a 3 is our goal for the end of the unit.  Most students will not yet be at a 3.  Their goal is to grow to a 3 by the end of the unit. 
• Students will set a goal for their learning target using the proficiency scale.
• At the beginning of every small group day, students will take 2 minutes to rate themselves and determine if they are on target to reach their goal. (Am I still at the same place? Do I feel like I have a better understanding of the skill we are learning? What evidence can I provide to show my growth?)

Knowledge Application:

The purpose of Knowledge Application is to promote deeper-level learning through student creation of learning artifacts demonstrating both Content Area and Digital Age Skills. A key goal is to provide some degree of control over how students will show what they know.

Artifact Profile:

Title of the Artifact:

Student teaching Student Presentation

Detailed Description:

Students will create a presentation to teach other students about 5 types of organizational patterns.  They can use any form of media to communicate the lesson with the students (poster, video, slide show, flip grid etc.)

Content Area Skills Addressed:

LA 6.1.6.j Apply knowledge of organizational patterns to comprehend informational text (e.g., sequence/chronological, description, cause and effect, compare/contrast, fact/opinion).

Digital Age Skills

ISTE 4a Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving authentic problems.

Link to Rubric

Student Teaching Students

Knowledge Deepening:

Detailed Description:

During Knowledge Deepening, the Content Area Skills required of the Learning Artifact are broken down into bite-sized tasks. A key goal is to provide some degree of choice over how students practice the Content Area Skills.

Tasks

Task 1

Digital Choice Board

Description: Choice Board Integrates other objectives in addition to organizational patterns.

Task 2

Graphic Organizer (in small group)

Description:  4 Groups

Read the following stories from Journeys: 

Tied Up in Knots: The Story of Harry Houdini

Unbelievable! Mobius Strips, Fractals, and Optical Illusions

Breaking the Code

Mobius Strips, Fractals, and Optical Illusions

Direct Instruction:

Detailed Description

Direct Instruction scaffolds the learning process for all students. A key goal is to incorporate BlendEd strategies to effectively differentiate instruction in order to maximize learning.

Learning Path:

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