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English · Grade 3

Compare Accounts and Text Features

Two original texts tell about the monarch butterfly's long migration: a reference article with headings, a sidebar, a map and key words, and a journal written by a fictional student who helped tag monarchs. Children use text features and search tools to find information, get information from a map, separate their own point of view from each author's, and compare the most important points of the two texts.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 95 minutes
  • Features and accounts check: 8 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, highlight a text, match pairs, sort into groups and write a short answer
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What learners will discover

  • Use text features and search tools (headings, key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to find information quickly.
  • Use information from maps, photographs and illustrations together with the words to understand a text.
  • Distinguish your own point of view from the point of view of the author.
  • Compare and contrast the most important points and key details in two texts on the same topic.

Lessons

  1. Text features and search tools 4 steps2 practiceabout 24 min
  2. Maps and pictures add information 4 steps2 practiceabout 22 min
  3. My view and the author's view 4 steps2 practiceabout 22 min
  4. Compare the two texts 4 steps3 practiceabout 27 min
  5. Features and accounts check 8 questions at the end

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Games to practice with

  • Memory LanternsFlip glowing lanterns to find pairs that belong together.
  • Word WorkshopBuild the word for each picture, one sound at a time.
  • Sentence TheatreYour words direct the show: change a word and the stage changes too.

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