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📖 Kindergarten · ELARI.K.5Unit 6: Informational text: animals & our world

Fiction or nonfiction?

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🎯 Objective: Students tell storybooks from information books.

Lesson outline

  1. Compare two books about bears.
  2. Make a T-chart.
  3. Sort books from the library.
  4. Exit: which book teaches facts?

Lesson 1 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.K.5

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Identify the main topic and key details
  • Use text features like photos and labels
  • Learn new words from the text

✅ 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: Animals📚 All Kindergarten skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Informational text: animals & our world”

  1. Fiction or nonfiction?
  2. Main topic
  3. Key details
  4. Photos, labels and captions
  5. New words from books
  6. Capybara facts

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