1st Marking
period
1st Grade: Reading Comprehension – Informational Text
(Non-Fiction)
What question do we ask ourselves?
Thinking and Academic Skills
Collaborate Analyze
 How does the use of informational text features help
you to locate and understand information?
 What strategies can you use before during and after
How will we master the objectives?
reading to support independent reading of increasingly
challenging text?
Through reading a variety of informational texts
in whole group and small group settings, we will:
 Identify text features to locate important
What do we need to know and be
information/facts
able to do?
 Ask questions to deepen understanding of
 Know and use various text features (e.g.,
text
headings, tables of contents, glossaries,
electronic menus, icons) to locate key
facts or information in text.
Vocabulary
 Ask and answer questions about key
text
non-fiction
text features icon
details in a text.
 Ask and answer questions to help
heading
glossary index electronic menu
determine or clarify the meaning of
table of contents
photograph
words or phrases in a text.
What resources will we use?
Various non-fiction texts
Electronic texts