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Cindy Malone – Reading Teacher

North Salisbury School

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Standard 2.0 Comprehension of Informational Text

Identify and use text features to facilitate understanding of informational texts

Before Reading1.D.3.a Use context to determine the meanings of words1.E.3.e Make, confirm or adjust predictions1.E.2.a Survey and preview the text by examining features, such as the title, illustrations, photographs, charts and graphs1.E.2.d Make connections to the text from prior knowledge and experiences

During Reading1.E.3.f Periodically summarize while reading2.A.2.F Identify and explain the contributions of text features to meaning • Connections between text features and the main idea and/or the reader’s understanding 2.A.2.a Use print features 2.A.2.c use informational aids captions2.A.2.b Use graphic aids – photographs2.A.1.a Read, use, and identify the characteristics of nonfiction materials to gain information and content knowledge

After Reading2.A.2.F Identify and explain the contributions of text features to meaning2.A.2.c use informational aids (captions)2.A.4.c State and support main ideas and messages • Whole text or portion of text

1.E.4.b Identify and explain what is directly stated in the text • Main ideas, supporting details, and other information stated in the text1.E.4.g Summarize – The text or a portion of the text

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• Prereading Activities

• Building Background

• Vocabulary Development

• Set Purposes for Reading

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“I had reasoned this out in my mind. There was one of two things I had a right to-- liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would have the other.” Harriet Tubman

How do you know from this quote that Harriet was a woman of courage?

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Preview

Read the title Read all the headings and sub-headings. Look at the pictures. Read the captions Stop and think about what you already know about the topic.

What do I know already about Harriet Tubman?

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With courage and determination, Tubman bravely won her own freedom.

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2. After dressing I made the fires, milked cows and worked in the pasture.

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3. Slave traders captured Harriet’s grandparents.

Harriet’s real name was Araminta.

Slaves worked long hours on a plantation.

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Harriet was independent and rebellious in nature.

The overseer picked up a heavy weight and threw it at him.

1.D.3.a Use context to determine the meanings of words

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What do you know About ….

1.E.2.d Make connections to the text from prior knowledge and experiences

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A Woman of CourageAgree or

Disagree

True or False Statement

Harriet Tubman served her country during the Civil War as spy and a scout.

Harriet’s grandparents were born in Bucktown, Maryland and were captured by slave traders.

Harriet and her ten brothers and sisters lived and worked on the Bucktown plantation.

Harriet received a very serious head injury trying to protect another slave from being whipped.

Slave children did not have to work in the fields. They had plenty of time to play and go to school if they wanted to.

Travel on the slave ships was restful, and the slaves always received plenty of food.

1.E.3.e Make, confirm or adjust predictions

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• Monitor and Clarify what we have read

• Reread difficult parts

• Carefully read and study graphic aids

• Think about the new information you have learned about the topic

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What new information did you learn about Harriet Tubman?

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8. 1.E.4.b Identify and explain what is directly stated in the text • Main ideas, supporting details, and other information stated in the text

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Reader’s Handbook

page 432

Many times the captions that go with the photos offer additional information about the topic, besides what is in the text.

2.A.2.F Identify and explain the contributions of text features to meaning

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Type of Text feature

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Information About the Topic it provided the Reader

How it supported the main idea of the chapter or the section of the chapter where it was located

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2.A.2.F Identify and explain the contributions of text features to meaning • Connections between text features and the main idea and/or the reader’s understanding

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Choose a text feature from Chapter 1 and explain how it supported the main idea of the chapter. Use details from the text to support your answer.

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2.A.2.F Identify and explain the contributions of text features to meaning * Connections between text features and the main idea and/or the reader’s understanding

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From “Harriet Tubman” by Jim Haskins

Topic Sentence and Supporting DetailsThe topic sentence is the main idea or thought of a paragraph. It often comes at the

beginning of a paragraph.

By 1851, Harriet had become a legend as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, the network of people, black and white, who aided slaves escaping from the South to the North for freedom. She established a pattern that she kept to for six years, until 1857. Each year she made two trips to the South, one in the spring and one in the fall. She spent the winters in St. Catherine’s, Ontario, where many fugitive slaves had settled, and the summers working in hotels in places such as Cape May, New Jersey, to earn money for her trips. In the spring of 1857, she managed to rescue her aged parents.

Reader’s Handbook page 208

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Topic sentence

Supporting Details

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Main Idea Organizer

SUBJECT

Topic Sentence

DETAIL 1 DETAIL 2 DETAIL 3 DETAIL 4

Author’s Purpose: Provide the reader with Information about how Harriet Tubman helped the slaves.

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She made regular trips to the South.

Harriet made two trips each year in the spring and the fall.

Harriet spent the rest of the year helping slaves in the North and earning money for trips.

she rescued her own parents in 1857.

Topic Sentence and Supporting Details

Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman was a legend as a conductor on the Underground Railroad

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Write a summary of chapter 1, A Woman of Courage. Use the sentence below to begin your summary.

Chapter 1 was about Harriet Tubman’s courage throughout her life while she was a slave and after she was free.

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1.E.4.g Summarize – The text or a portion of the text

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