1. Reading Focus: Use Details to Understand the Main Idea Close Reading
Unit: 1 Lesson: 2
Module: B
Focus:
Use Details to Understand the Main Idea
Use text features to locate information
Read text closely for key ideas and details.
Today we will be doing a
Close Reading
of pp. 40–59.
Essential Questions:
How do readers identify central messages in literary texts and main ideas in informational texts?
How do writers use details, text features, and illustrations to convey main ideas?

2. Enduring Understanding:
Building Understanding
Let’s Set the Purpose!
Enduring Understanding:
Writers understand how to convey information about main ideas and details through text features and illustrations.
We are going to look at a text to see how illustrations and text features convey main ideas and details.

3. the text, paying attention to the text features and illustrations.
Let’s Get Engaged!
Revisit the informational science text The Moon Seems to Change. Page through
the text, paying attention to the text features and illustrations.
In this lesson we are going to learn how writers can use text features to convey information.

4. Are there times that the moon is not visible at night?
Reading Routine
Turn and Talk:
Turn to a partner and discuss these questions using examples from the text:
Are there times that the moon is not visible at night?

5. Close Read Remember that readers can focus on how writers
convey information about main ideas and key details
by using text features and illustrations.
1. Explain how the photographs support the information in the text. Look at the text and photo on p. 44. How do you think the author’s illustration at the bottom of page 44 supports the main idea that the moon seems to change because it goes around Earth?
2. How do you think the author’s illustration on page 47 supports the main idea that the moon seems to change because it goes around Earth?

6. Close Read
2. How do you think the author’s illustration on page 47 supports the main idea that the moon seems to change because it goes around Earth?

7. Benchmark Vocabulary Vocabulary Quick Check  Vocabulary
• waxing, • waning,
Vocabulary Quick Check 

8. Text Talk Text Features
Key details, such as facts and examples, support the main idea, the most important idea in the text.
I will write down the main idea, The moon looks like it changes but does not, in the chart. What text features can help me add details? Let’s look at page 43. The illustrations and captions on this page tell me the phases of the moon and what they look like. The text features draw attention to key details by using white space and bigger text.

9. Discussion Routine Reading Quick Check 
Complete the graphic organizer using
details and examples from the text that support your ideas.

10. Small Group Time
STEP 1: Focused Independent Reading
Choose a book you think you will enjoy reading.
While you are reading today, make note of specific text features in your book. Use a post it to describe the text feature and how it helps understanding of the story. Place your post it on the “Show What You Know” Board

11. Informative/Explanatory Writing Identify Types of Genre
Objectives:
Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly. W.3.2

12. Here are some genres of informative/explanatory writing.
Let’s Set a Purpose!
There are different kinds of informative/explanatory writing. Different kinds of writing are called genres. All genres of informative/explanatory writing tell facts.
Here are some genres of informative/explanatory writing.
•Procedural writing tells how to do something step by step. A recipe for apple pie is an example of procedural writing.
•Report writing tells facts and information about a topic. Newspaper and magazine articles are examples of report writing.
•Explanatory writing tells how things work and why things happen. Most science writing is explanatory writing.

13. Writing Let’s Set a Purpose!
The Moon Seems to Change is an explanatory science text because it explains why something in nature happens: why the moon seems to change, or has phases.

14. Writing Teach and Model
When writers write about a science topic, they convey information through facts and key details. Then notice how The Moon Seems to Change might look if it were written in a different genre.

15. PREPARE TO WRITE
It is important for a writer to know what genre an informative writing assignment requires to write effectively in that genre.

16. PURPOSE
The key to identifying the genre of an informative text is to identify its purpose. If the purpose of a text is to show the reader how to do something, it is procedural writing. If the purpose of the text is to give facts and information, it is report writing. If the purpose of the text is to explain how something works or why something happens, it is explanatory writing.

17. Look for words and phrases that offer clues to a text’s purpose.
LOOK FOR CLUE WORDS
Look for words and phrases that offer clues to a text’s purpose.
Procedural writing may use words such as first, next, then, and finally to show a sequence of steps.
Report writing may include dates and words and phrases such as actually and in fact.
Explanatory writing may have words and phrases such as because and due to.
In addition to these clues, you must read a text carefully to be sure of its purpose. It is also important to use these words and phrases in your own informative/explanatory writing.

18. LOOK FOR CLUE WORDS
I will model identifying The Moon Seems to Change as an explanatory text:
As I read the text, I look for clue words to help me learn this text’s purpose. On page 44, the text says, “It seems to change because the moon goes around Earth.” Because is one of the clue words for explanatory texts. The word appears again on page 57: “It goes through phases because it goes around Earth.” This clue word tells me that The Moon Seems to Change is probably an explanatory text.

19. PRACTICE
Read the following sentences and identify the genre of informative/explanatory writing:
•The Declaration of Independence was written in 1776.
•First, pick the freshest apples at the supermarket.
•The sky looks blue because blue light travels in smaller, shorter waves and scatters more when sunlight hits Earth’s atmosphere.

20. Independent Writing Practice
Write a paragraph identifying the genre - procedural writing, report writing, or explanatory writing - of the informative/explanatory paragraph you wrote in Lesson 1. You should explain the reasons you used to identify that genre, including any clue words or phrases.

21. Nouns as a Subject
The subject of a sentence is who or what does, or is, something in the sentence-- A noun can be the subject of a sentence. A subject can also appear in the middle or end of a sentence