Rain Forest Module 2A Unit 1 Lesson 4 Summarizing Informational Text: “Hawaii’s Endangered Happy Face Spider” Based upon lessons created by Expeditionary.

Rain Forest Module 2A Unit 1 Lesson 4

Summarizing Informational Text: “Hawaii’s Endangered Happy Face Spider”

Based upon lessons created by Expeditionary Learning

Stephen J. O’Connor

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• I can explain the gist of the article “Hawaii’s Endangered Happy Face Spider.”

• I can determine the meaning of new words from context in the article “Hawaii’s Endangered Happy Face Spider.”

• I can listen actively to my group members while discussing ideas.

• I can use my group’s ideas to help me determine the gist of an article.

Learning Targets

Turn and share with a partner what

you think the article is mostly about.

• Read slowly and carefully

• Reread several times

• Break the text into chunks

• Find main ideas or gists

• Discuss what was read with others

Close Readers

• Use context by reading sentences and/or words directly before or after the unfamiliar word

•  Think about what type of speech the word is (verb, noun, adjective) and how it connects to/describes other words in the sentence

• Break the word into familiar parts and determining meaning based on what part(s) can be defined easily

• Look for repeated words, which usually indicates this is an important word,etc.

Close Readers

On your own, read the chunk of text,

focusing on gist. Choose no more than

five key words that support the main

idea, or gist, of what your chunk was

about and write those words in the

second column of the Note-catcher. After

this, discuss the gist of your paragraph

with your group. Then, on your own, write

a gist statement in the third column of

the Note-catcher.

What vocabulary did you find What vocabulary did you find difficult?difficult?

What vocabulary did you find What vocabulary did you find difficult?difficult?

Groups of 6

• Read the chunk to your group

• Share the key vocabulary

• Share the gist

• Others should fill in their note catcher

• Share out the gist statements about your chunk of the article

• As your peers share, listen and take notes in the 3 column note-catcher. What is each chunk mostly about?

• Now that you have reread chunks of the text more carefully, what do you think is the gist of the whole article?

• Write your gist statement in the last box

Informational Texts

• I can explain the gist of the article “Hawaii’s Endangered Happy Face Spider.”

• I can determine the meaning of new words from context in the article “Hawaii’s Endangered Happy Face Spider.”

• I can listen actively to my group members while discussing ideas.

• I can use my group’s ideas to help me determine the gist of an article.

Learning Targets

What can we add to our Rainforest

KWL anchor chart in the L– Learned–

column about rainforests?

How was reading closely with a group

different from doing it alone? What

helped or supported your

understanding of the text?

Word Synonym Definition Picture

unique explanation one of a kind

resemble similar similar to; look like

generally usuallyhappens most

of the time

locate find find something

Academic

Word Synonym Definition Picture

stated saidsaid or wrote something

symbolrepresentatio

n

something that represents

something else

attentionnotice

interest

bring notice or interest in something

Academic

Word Synonym Definition Picture

extinction

death of all remaining

members of species

predators animals that eat other animals

theoryhypothesis, explanation

Ideas that explain

something

Scientific

Imagine that you were the scientist

studying the happy face spider in the

rainforest. In your journal, write a

descriptive paragraph about the spider for

people who are not in the rainforest to see

it themselves.