Learning how to read informational text requires higher level strategies of gathering information, summarizing, synthesizing, and connecting information to prior knowledge. The readers of informational text must also analyze the information with an overall organizational structure and ask critical questions of how the information is being documented and fits together.
According to Fountas and Pinnell in Guiding Readers and Writers , the feature and patterns of text structures in informational text help the reader locate the information. The following two charts list features and patterns of text structures that may help the reader:. So, is there a difference between non-fiction and informational text? Nonfiction text is just one type of informational text. The strategies needed for students to be better prepared for college and career, as called for in the CCLS, far exceeds those called for in reading and writing just non-fiction text.
Informational text spans the subject areas, builds connections between subjects, strengthens vocabulary, and provides opportunities to deepen our knowledge base and our literacy curriculum. This is a really tough distinction.
It seems that the authors of Common Core Standards treat informational text differently across the whole set of standards. I really run into trouble here when helping students identify why and where to use the skills they learn in the informational text standards. Some of the skills behind standards make sense for broad non-fiction e. Maybe that is something that can be updated or explained better in later version of the standards?
Thanks for the article and insight. Ask and answer questions such as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. Assessment anchors haven't been assigned to the lesson plan.
Students will: identify characteristics of literary text and informational text. Essential Questions. How do strategic readers create meaning from informational and literary text? How does interaction with text provoke thinking and response? What is this text really about? Literary Fiction Text: A story about people, animals, or events that is made up by an author. Characters: The people or animals in a story. Setting: The time and place, or when and where, a story happens.
Plot: The sequence of events in a story, including a problem and a solution. Characteristics: Features or qualities that help identify something.
Informational Nonfiction Text: A book that gives information or facts about real people, things, or events. Captions: Words or sentences that give information about a photograph.
Table of Contents: A list of chapter titles and the page numbers on which they begin. A table of contents is located at the beginning of a book. Glossary: List of words in a book and their meanings. Bold Print: Heavy, dark print. Italics: Slanted print. Literary Nonfiction: Books that have characteristics of both literary and informational books.
Prerequisite Skills. Prerequisite Skills haven't been entered into the lesson plan. Steck-Vaughn Company, Becoming Butterflies by Anne Rockwell.
Walker and Company, These books were chosen because they are examples of literary, informational, and literary nonfiction texts about the same topic.
Candlewick, Atlantic by G. Brian Karas. Puffin, Teachers may substitute other books to provide a range of reading and level of text complexity. Related Unit and Lesson Plans. Informative literature is an example of non-fiction text, and it can be found in various forms and in various settings.
These characteristics help the reader understand who is in the story, where and when the story takes place, what happens in the story, and how the events happen, etc. It is a coherent set of signs that transmits some kind of informative message. The 21st century in literature refers to world literature produced during the 21st century. The measure of years is, for the purpose of this article, literature written from roughly the year to the present. Tristan Cafe is a literary genre that is flash fiction and for me, Tristan Cafe will be qualified in the 21st-century literary piece.
It tends to talk about entire classes of things in a generalized way. Think about all those animal books and books about trains, sports, etc. Not all non-fiction is considered informational text. To make the distinction, you need to consider the purpose of the text.
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