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📖 2nd Grade · ELARI.2.6Unit 3: Informational text: main topic & features

Author’s purpose

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🎯 Objective: Students identify what the author wants to answer, explain or describe.

Lesson outline

  1. Sort texts: to answer, explain or describe.
  2. Discuss clues.
  3. Practice.
  4. Exit: the author’s purpose and a clue.

Lesson 4 of 6 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.2.6

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 2 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text and the focus of each paragraph
  • Use text features to locate facts

✅ 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

🎯 Practice: Main topic of a paragraph📚 All 2nd Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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

  1. Main topic of a text
  2. Focus of each paragraph
  3. Text features
  4. Author’s purpose
  5. Diagrams
  6. Compare two texts

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