Here is a sampling of Common Core Standards that can be taught using series nonfiction.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.5 Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
Lesson Idea:
Working with the classroom teacher, use a series to teach text features. A document camera or an eBook copy of the book could be used to present and then students can work in small groups to use other books in the series to locate and identify the various text features. These books could then be used for classroom reading centers, and for teaching during guided reading lessons. Choosing a series that goes along with science and social studies standards is an added bonus!
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.6.8 Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
Lesson Idea:
Students will read a title from a selected series of nonfiction. As they read they will complete a T-Chart of arguments and claims that are supported by reason and evidence and ones that are not supported. For the supported column, students will note the reason and evidence that supports the claim.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.7 Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums (e.g., a person’s life story in both print and multimedia), determining which details are emphasized in each account.
Lesson Idea:
Students will conduct a Thought Experiment.
1. Using a series on current issues, the teacher and media specialist would create a question. An example, using the Inventors and Innovators set by Britannica Educational Pub. in association with Rosen Educational Services. "What would Galileo think of NASA no longer sending shuttles into space? What would Henry Ford think of the use of the internet to sell cars?
2. The students will describe the current event.
3. The students will read the selection from the series on the person and research additional information on that person (Galileo or Henry Ford).
4. The student decides what they believe that person would feel and think of the current event and share their findings.
(For more information on Thought Experiments, read The Thought Experiment: An Imaginative Way into Civic Literacy by Myra Zarnowski. Found in the March/April 2009 issue of The Social Studies.)
Series Nonfiction can be used to teach all standards in the Informational Text strand for ALL grades! For more information go to http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy and click the Information Text Tab on the left hand side of the page.
For additional ideas, read "Unpacking A Standard: with Series Nonfiction" by Julie Green. Booklist: October 1, 2012.
Lesson Idea:
Working with the classroom teacher, use a series to teach text features. A document camera or an eBook copy of the book could be used to present and then students can work in small groups to use other books in the series to locate and identify the various text features. These books could then be used for classroom reading centers, and for teaching during guided reading lessons. Choosing a series that goes along with science and social studies standards is an added bonus!
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.6.8 Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
Lesson Idea:
Students will read a title from a selected series of nonfiction. As they read they will complete a T-Chart of arguments and claims that are supported by reason and evidence and ones that are not supported. For the supported column, students will note the reason and evidence that supports the claim.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.7 Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums (e.g., a person’s life story in both print and multimedia), determining which details are emphasized in each account.
Lesson Idea:
Students will conduct a Thought Experiment.
1. Using a series on current issues, the teacher and media specialist would create a question. An example, using the Inventors and Innovators set by Britannica Educational Pub. in association with Rosen Educational Services. "What would Galileo think of NASA no longer sending shuttles into space? What would Henry Ford think of the use of the internet to sell cars?
2. The students will describe the current event.
3. The students will read the selection from the series on the person and research additional information on that person (Galileo or Henry Ford).
4. The student decides what they believe that person would feel and think of the current event and share their findings.
(For more information on Thought Experiments, read The Thought Experiment: An Imaginative Way into Civic Literacy by Myra Zarnowski. Found in the March/April 2009 issue of The Social Studies.)
Series Nonfiction can be used to teach all standards in the Informational Text strand for ALL grades! For more information go to http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy and click the Information Text Tab on the left hand side of the page.
For additional ideas, read "Unpacking A Standard: with Series Nonfiction" by Julie Green. Booklist: October 1, 2012.