McGraw Wonders Unit 3 Week 3
Essential Question: Where can you find patterns in nature?
Reading Strategy Focus for the Week:
Comprehension Strategy -
Ask and Answer Questions
Main Idea and Key Details
Expository
Comprehension Strategy -
Ask and Answer Questions
- asking and answering questions helps students check for understanding of main ideas and key details in the text.
Main Idea and Key Details
- The text as a whole has a main idea but each section of text has a main idea too and supported by key details.
- Sometimes the main idea is explicitly stated in the text, but often readers must look at the key details in order to figure out the main idea
- To determine the main idea, students should identify the key details and figure out what they have in common
Expository
- Expository Text supports a topic with reasons and evidence. Possible topics include real people and places, actual events, and scientific concepts.
- Text features help readers visualize information. Some text features may be: illustrations, photographs, captions, diagrams, maps, and time lines are features that commonly in expository text.