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Website:
http://www.wegivebooks.org/books/forest?auto_launch=1
Topics to be covered:
Day 1: Introduce Nonfiction text features through whole group Ebook activity
Day 2: Interactive text feature worksheet
Day 3:
On the final day of nonfiction text feature lessons, you will be completing a scavenger hunt online by reading an Ebook. Each group (from the previous day) will be given a laptop and follow the links under day 3 below. The directions will have the website to go to and which book you should read (see below). Once you have opened your Ebook, your group will have 15 minutes to find all the text features listed on the scavenger hunt. You will write the answers/examples down on the worksheet they were given for the scavenger hunt (see below). You will be working together to find the text features from this electronic book and need to hand this in at the end of your allotted time.
Activities:
Day 1/Day 2:
Please click on the book link at the top of this webpage. This will take you to the book we are reading in class. Follow along on your laptop as we read aloud. Click on the following document to reference as we are talking. This is the document we will fill out during class on day 2. Please read the Day 2 summary to find instructions. Make sure to save this document to your STUDENT NUMBER.
Click on the following link to take you to the online book for the Scavenger hunt
EBook website
hunt (survey monkey).monkey) link. When I
Click on the link below to take you to the scavenger hunt:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HHMTG7W

Website:
http://www.wegivebooks.org/books/forest?auto_launch=1
Topics covered:
Day 1: Introduce Nonfiction text features through whole group Ebook activity
Day 2: Interactive text feature worksheet
Day 3: Group scavenger hunt through Ebook website:
http://www.wegivebooks.org/books/forest?auto_launch=1
Background Information:Information-Read before starting each day:
You previously learned about the genre of nonfiction and author's purpose. Authors write nonfiction articles/books to inform the reader about the topic they are writing about.
We will begin learning about the different features that make up nonfiction books/articles. Each one of the features helps us as a reader to understand the content. We can also use our reading strategies when trying to understand the nonfiction text features. Glance over what is to be expected of you over the next three days. The worksheets and activities are posted, but I will be giving you copies during class.
Day 1:
You will be given a chart handout that they will reference today and use the following day. The teacher will use a virtual Ebook from the website: http://www.wegivebooks.org
from the projector.projector on your laptop. You will
Day 2:
The first two minutes, you will be reviewing what they learned with a shoulder partner on the carpet. This lesson will be completing the reading chart from the previous day. On this chart, (see below) you will have the name of the text feature and you need to fill in WHY the feature helps us as a reader. The teacher will have this projected on the SmartBoard. The class will be divided into pairs or groups of three. Each group will be responsible for a text feature. You will come up one by one and write why that text feature helps them as a reader. You will collaborate as a group to come up with an answer. At the end of this lesson, make sure you grad your exit ticket. This is a three question quiz about nonfiction text features. You will be completing this independently and you need to hand it into me when you are finished.
Day 3:
a laptop with a set of directions to follow.and follow the links under day 3 below. The directions time.
Day 1:
Click1/Day 2:
Please click on the book link at the top of this webpage. This will take you to the book we are reading in class. Follow along on your laptop as we read aloud. Click on the following document.document to reference as we are talking. This is out during class.class on day 2. Please read
{day1.docx}
Day 2:
CompletePlease click on the document above. This will be completed through partner work and whole group. Complete the following your exit ticket.ticket at the end of class, when I instruct you to do so.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HBK7QFD
Day 3:
the Ebook websitewebsite:
Click on the following link to take you to the online book for the Scavenger hunt
EBook website
your Ebook, read the directions onyou may open the scavenger hunt worksheet.(survey monkey). When I
Click on the link below to take you to the scavenger hunt:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HHMTG7W

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HHMTG7W

On the final day of nonfiction text feature lessons, you will be completing a scavenger hunt online by reading an Ebook. Each group (from the previous day) will be given a laptop with a set of directions to follow. The directions will have the website to go to and which book you should read (see below). Once you have opened your Ebook, your group will have 15 minutes to find all the text features listed on the scavenger hunt. You will write the answers/examples down on the worksheet they were given for the scavenger hunt (see below). You will be working together to find the text features from this electronic book and need to hand this in at the end of your allotted time.
Day 1:
Click on the following document. This is the document we will fill out during class. Please read the Day 2 summary to find instructions. Make sure to save this document to your STUDENT NUMBER.
{day1.docx}
Day 2:
Complete the following quiz via Survey Monkey for your exit ticket.

Day 3:
On the final day of nonfiction text feature lessons, you will be completing a scavenger hunt online by reading an Ebook. Each group (from the previous day) will be given a laptop with a set of directions to follow. The directions will have the website to go to and which book you should read (see below). Once you have opened your Ebook, your group will have 15 minutes to find all the text features listed on the scavenger hunt. You will write the answers/examples down on the worksheet they were given for the scavenger hunt (see below). You will be working together to find the text features from this electronic book and need to hand this in at the end of your allotted time.
Worksheets/assessments to go along with the lesson
Day 1:
Name: _
Text Feature
How this helps me as a reader…
Title
Subtitle
Heading
Subheading
Bolded Text
Captions
Illustrations/Photographs
Graphs
Table of Contents
Glossary
Index
Textbox
Day 2:
Name:___
Exit Ticket-
Why is the glossary and index found in alphabetical order?
Explain why the author includes captions under illustrations or photographs?
Which ofComplete the following text feature can help us locate information from the text?
Title
Glossary
Bolded words
Indexquiz via Survey Monkey for your exit ticket.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HBK7QFD
Day 3:
Instructions for getting onto the Ebook website
Online Scavenger Hunt: Nonfiction Text Features
Directions: Once you have logged onto the computer, please open the internet explorer browser. Go toClick on the following website:
http://www.wegivebooks.org/books/forest?auto_launch=1
Once you have clicked on your Ebook, read the directions on the scavenger hunt worksheet. When I saylink to start,take you will have fifteen minutes to complete the scavenger hunt. Make sure all group member names are ononline book for the worksheet.
Online Scavenger Hunt: Nonfiction Text Features
Directions: Once you have logged onto the computer, please open the internet explorer browser. Go to the following website:
http://www.wegivebooks.org/books/forest?auto_launch=1hunt
EBook website
Once you scavenger hunt. Make sure all group member names are
Click on the worksheet.
Day 3: Scavenger hunt
Name:
Scavenger Hunt: Nonfiction text features
Directions: Find the following text features from the Ebooklink below to take you are reading. You may find these on any of the pages. You do not need to find them in order.
Find a word and definition in the glossary
Word _
Definition
Find the title of a book _
Find the heading of an article _
Find a bolded word in a text _
Find a text box, what is the information telling you _
Find a subtitle of an article
Find a caption of a picture _
Find a photograph, what is it a photo of _
Find a topic and page number from the index
Topic
Page number(s) _
Find a topic/chapter from a Table of Contents
scavenger hunt:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HHMTG7W

http://www.wegivebooks.org/books/forest?auto_launch=1
Background Information:
writing about.
We
We will begin text features. Glance over what is to be expected of you over the next three days. The worksheets and activities are posted, but I will be giving you copies during class.
Day 1:
You will be given a chart handout that they will reference today and use the following day. The teacher will use a virtual Ebook from the website: http://www.wegivebooks.org
Bolded words
Index
Day 3:
Instructions for getting onto the Ebook website
Online Scavenger Hunt: Nonfiction Text Features