Lesson plan
|Math Lesson: Text Features |Grade Level: 3 |
|Lesson Summary: Students will learn how to identify and use text features. They will find information in a table of contents and then complete worksheets on the |
|ways text features help readers understand information. Students will create a glossary or index to display in the classroom. Advanced learners will create a text |
|feature for a book. Struggling learners will bring in a book and identify a text feature and its purpose. |
|Lesson Objectives: |
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|The students will know… |
|• that passages can include text features such as table of contents, chapter headings, glossary, and index. |
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|The students will be able to… |
|identify text features and know when and why they are used. |
|Learning Styles Targeted: |
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|Visual |
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|Auditory |
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|Kinesthetic/Tactile |
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|Pre-Assessment: |
|Display a book that includes text features such as a table of contents, chapter headings, glossary, and index. |
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|Ask students to identify the text features. List the features on the board. |
|Whole-Class Instruction |
|Materials Needed: Worksheet*, copies of text features from books in the classroom or school library that include a variety of text features, poster board, markers,|
|and pens or pencils |
|Procedure: |
|Presentation |
|Explain that text features help readers identify and understand content by providing additional information or organizing text. Text features serve specific |
|purposes. |
|A Table of Contents lists chapter titles and the page numbers the chapters start on. |
|Chapter Headings alert students to specific information covered in that part of a chapter. |
|A Glossary defines words and provides their punctuations. |
|An Index lists important topics in alphabetical order and the pages where they are found in the book. |
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|Guided Practice |
|Distribute Xeroxes of a book’s text features, for example, a table of contents. |
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|Ask students to tell you where to find specific information in the book using the table of contents. Ask questions verbally or write them on the board. |
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|Repeat the process for other text features. |
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|Independent Practice |
|Using the worksheet*, have students identify different ways text features help readers understand information. |
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|Closing Activity |
|Distribute a Xerox of a chapter from a nonfiction book. Ask students to highlight 5 words that could be included in a glossary or 5 topics in the chapter that |
|could be found in an Index. |
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|Have students create a glossary (using a dictionary for help) or an index on a piece of poster board. |
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|Display the students’ work in the classroom. |
| Advanced Learner |
|Materials Needed: books, poster board, and markers |
|Procedure: |
|Have students find examples of that feature in books in the classroom or school library. |
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|Ask students to create their own text feature to go with a book they have chosen and write it on a piece of poster board. |
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|Allow time for students to share their work with the class. |
|Struggling Learner |
|Materials Needed: books |
|Procedure: |
|Ask students to bring in a book from home or find a book in the classroom or school library that includes text features. |
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|Have students choose a text feature and share their example with the class, explaining the text features it contains and how it is used. |
*see supplemental resources
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