CONNECTIONS

Carrie Bolding ECI 545: Theories and Research in Literacy North Carolina State University

Common Core Standards

ELA.RI.K.7With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear ELARI.K.9 With prompting and support, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic ELA W.K.1 Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book

Lesson Focus
The focus of this lesson was to assist my students in understanding the importance and purpose of using pictures to help them decode the text and to recognize why pictures should match the words within the text.

Related Theories
Transactional Reader Response Theory Schema Theory Mental Discipline Theory Psycholinguistic Theory

Texts
Non-Fiction Text 1: Weather Days By: Michele Perreault Houghton Mifflin Number of words: 24 Non-Fiction Text 2: What Season is it? By: Clara Meskin Houghton Mifflin Number of Words: 79

Scaffolding

Text Dependent Questioning

Compelling Activity