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📖 5th Grade · ELARI.5.8Unit 4: Informational text: main ideas, relationships & multiple texts

Reasons and evidence

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🎯 Objective: Students explain how an author uses reasons and evidence.

Lesson outline

  1. Read an op-ed for kids.
  2. Map claim and reasons.
  3. Discuss.
  4. Exit: one reason plus evidence.

Lesson 5 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.5.8

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 5 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Determine two or more main ideas
  • Explain relationships between individuals, events or ideas
  • Integrate information from several texts

✅ 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: Compare two texts📚 All 5th Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Informational text: main ideas, relationships & multiple texts”

  1. Two main ideas
  2. Relationships in texts
  3. Compare text structures
  4. Multiple accounts
  5. Reasons and evidence
  6. Integrating sources

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