About This Lesson
Submitted to the EQuIP Review Panel by CPALMS, www.cpalms.org. The lesson requires 11 hours of instructional time and covers standards LAFS.1.RI1.1, LAFS.1.W.1.2, LAFS.1.RI.2.5, LAFS.1.W.2.6, and LAFS.1.RI.3.7. In the lesson, students identify text features of non-fiction books and use several informational texts on meat-eating plants to answer text dependent questions. Students become "text detectives" and learn how to use the text to find evidence to prove that their answers to questions are right. The students learn to use evidence from informational texts to write explanatory paragraphs.
