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📖 3rd Grade · ELARI.3.5Unit 4: Informational text: main idea & details

Text features and search tools

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🎯 Objective: Students use text features and search tools to find information.

Lesson outline

  1. Feature hunt (headings, sidebars, captions, index).
  2. Search practice: keywords and hyperlinks.
  3. Find answers fast.
  4. Exit: find one fact in under a minute.

Lesson 3 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.3.5

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 3 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Determine the main idea and recount key details
  • Use text features and search tools

✅ 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 idea & details🦫 Kids encyclopedia📚 All 3rd Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Informational text: main idea & details”

  1. Main idea vs topic
  2. Key details
  3. Text features and search tools
  4. Sequence and cause-effect
  5. Words in context
  6. Compare two texts

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