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📖 1st Grade · ELARI.1.2Unit 6: Informational text: topic & text features

Main topic and details

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🎯 Objective: Students identify the main topic and key details of an informational text.

Lesson outline

  1. Read about space; ask: what is this mostly about?
  2. Topic umbrella with detail raindrops.
  3. Share.
  4. Exit: topic plus two details.

Lesson 1 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

RI.1.2

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 1 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Identify the main topic and retell key details
  • Use text features to find facts
  • Tell information from pictures versus words

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🦫 Encyclopedia: Space📚 All 1st Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Informational text: topic & text features”

  1. Main topic and details
  2. Text features
  3. Pictures and words
  4. Connections
  5. Two texts, one topic

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