Resources
RI.2.5
Reading Street:
Exploring Space with an Astronaut Unit 1, student book p. 58
Additional Resources for Formative Assessment:
A variety of ways to assess student learning.
“53 Ways to Check for Understanding”
Scavenger Hunt:
After students learn different nonfiction text features to help them navigate
nonfiction texts, have them do a scavenger hunt where they check off the features
they find in their own books.
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/top-teaching/2012/03/plan-nonfiction-textfeature-scavenger-hunt
Understanding Text Features:
Use this lesson to introduce students to informational texts and key text features.
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/grades-1-2-analyze-non-fiction
Reading Rockets:
The following link will guide students through Text Feature Walks:
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/guiding-students-through-expository-texttext-feature-walks
Text Mapping:
An elementary school teacher gives a step-by-step direction on how to teach text
features through text mapping.
http://www.classroom20.com/profiles/blogs/649749:BlogPost:190834
Florida Center for Reading Research
(Use this format in the instructional piece with a different book prior to the
assessment)
Book Look (Students will identify the parts of a book.)
www.fcrr.org/studentactivities/c_011b.pdf
Text Feature Find (Students will identify text features.)
http://www.fcrr.org/studentactivities/c_014c.pdf
Achieve the Core:
The following link lists several stories that address CCSS RI.2.5 as well as other
standards. When you click on a story title, it downloads a comprehensive unit of
study.
http://achievethecore.org/search?q=RI.2.5
Resources
RI.2.5
Falling in Love With Close Reading by Lehman and Roberts (2014)
Lens #1: Describe the organization of the text:
Genre as structure chosen for a purpose:
 Editorial, to convince or persuade
 Article, to inform and educate
Location of parts within the whole:
 Sections
 Text features
 Order of techniques (see below)
Techniques the author uses:
 Definition of a term
 Comparisons
 Cause or effect
 Description
 Anecdote
 Claim
Lens #2: Purpose of that organization:
 To present a cause for an effect
 To make a complex idea more concrete
 To provide context
 To clear up misconceptions
 To develop a reader’s expertise
Nancy Fetzer Graphic Organizer
Nancy Fetzer writing-connections-blackline-masters page 22Using the graphic
organizer, students will represent details from the beginning, middle, and end of any
given story
CCSS Task Cards for 2nd Grade: Click on the link or open the PDF file and scroll to
the specific questions for RI.2.3. These task cards provide questions specific to story
structure. http://bossard.dadeschools.net/Forms/SecondOpenHouse2009.pdf
Accountable Talk Stems
Provide sentence stems to facilitate student responses to teacher/student
discussions
Text Features Anchor Chart:
Resources
RI.2.5
Teachers create an anchor chart with their students. Students might create an
anchor chart on their journals at the same time if appropriate. Students/teacher
should add information to the anchor chart when another text feature is identified.
Additional Anchor Chart