Mrs. Gilkes
7th Grade Reading Literacy
Analyzing and Creating Nonfiction
Text Unit
Homework:
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3.
Read AR book 30 minutes and get
parent’s signature
Bring AR book to class tomorrow
Review Cornell Notes (Nonfiction
Unit Vocabulary)
IB Frameworks:
IB Areas of Interaction: Approaches to
Learning – Students will examine their
approach to learning the information
presented in this unit.
IB Learner Profile: Communicators –
students will use nonfiction vocabulary
terms throughout their learning during
this unit.
Warm-Up:
Do I communicate with people of
other cultures? Why or why
not?
Lesson Guiding Question:
What vocabulary would I need to
know to conduct effective
nonfiction research?
Opening:
Students will review and discuss
the Georgia Performance
Standard - ELA7R2.d:
Determines word meanings
through the use of definition,
example, restatement, or
contrast.
Work Session:
Students will write Analyzing and Creating
Nonfiction Unit Vocabulary Cornell
Notes.
Nonfiction Unit Vocabulary
Extraneous – not belonging or proper to a
thing.
Inappropriate information - information
which does not suit the context of the
research.
Organizational pattern – the way
research information is presented.
Composition – an act of producing a
literary work; an essay.
Nonfiction Unit Vocabulary
Identify – to recognize as being a particular
person or thing.
Inquiry – a seeking for truth; a question.
Investigation – detailed or careful
examination (observation).
Research – investigation into a subject to
discover facts.
Nonfiction Unit Vocabulary
Credit – acknowledgement for using literary
work.
Quoted – to repeat (a passage, phrase, etc)
from a book or speech.
Paraphrase – the process of restating or
rewording.
Consistently – constantly.
Nonfiction Unit Vocabulary
Methodology – a set of methods or rules.
Citations – a quotation showing a particular
phrase.
Document – a written or printed paper with
information.
Sources – a thing or place from which
information is found (books, internet, etc.).
Electronic media – electronic means of
communication (online newspapers, online
journals, online encyclopedias, television, etc).
Work Session Continued…
Students will complete a Vocabulary Card
for 10 Nonfiction Unit Vocabulary words.
Vocabulary Graphic Organizer…
Graphic Organizer - Vocabulary Cards.pdf
Closing:
Students will participate in a review all of
the Nonfiction Vocabulary Unit Cornell
Notes.