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Lesson #3
Instructional Objectives:
Students will understand that text features help readers to figure out what the author of a non-
fiction text wants us to know.
Students will be able to identify sequential structure in sample texts.
Students will be able to create short pieces of writing adhering to the elements of sequential
structure.
Students will know signal words typically found in sequential structure.
Students will know the situations in which an author might use sequential structure.
Materials: Nonfiction ToolKit packet, cut-up paragraph sort activity, interview sheets, recipe
handout, exit slip
Assessment:
Informal: Asking students questions during hook/guided note taking, talking to students as they
complete their interviews, reading/listening to students biographies on one another.
Formal: Exit tickets, recipe handout (homework)
Hook: Groups of students will be given a paragraph that has been cut up into individual words
and phrases. Students will have a given amount of time to put the paragraph back together.
After each group thinks they have it sorted correctly, they will share their paragraphs with the
class. We will briefly discuss who got it right and which groups ordered phrases differently
than others. What was this paragraph trying to do? What do you think the author wanted us to
walk away with? Are these steps important? Why does it need to be in a specific order?
Questions: What was this paragraph trying to do? What do you think the author wanted us to
walk away with? Are these steps important? Why does it need to be in a specific order? Does
sequential order make it easier for us to understand the point of Xs biography? How?
6 min Teacher plays Watch Me video and passes out Students watch video and
exit slips. complete answers on exit
slip accordingly. Students
turn in before leaving class.
Teacher assigns Recipe handout for
homework.
Inter-Logic: This lesson introduces sequential text structure. We have just finished going over
descriptive structure, and we are moving along in our packets. This lesson introduces the next
type of structure students need to know, and allows them to see multiple different ways that an
author might use sequence. On the next day, we will go over the homework in order to clarify
any misunderstanding before beginning with that days warm upwhich will begin to bring in
cause & effect and problem & solution.