how do you grow research for an informational text?
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How do you grow research for an informational text?. In this lesson you will learn how to grow research for an informational text by using resources to answer your questions. . An informational text gives facts about a non-fiction topic. . Non-fiction/Real Topic: Animal Survival. Resource. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
How do you grow research for an informational text?
In this lesson you will learn how to grow research for an informational text by using resources to answer your
questions.
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An informational text gives facts about a non-fiction topic.
Non-fiction/Real Topic:Animal Survival
Resource Resource Resource
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Writing Process
1 2 3Generate Ideas
Write Drafts
Revise and Edit
Let’s ReviewA Common Mistake
Taking notes without organizing them.
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Let’s ReviewCore Lesson
Look over the questions you wrote about the topic. 1
2 Read through your resources to find the answers.
3 Write the answers in your notes.
Let’s ReviewCore LessonLook over the questions you wrote about the topic.1
• Other ways to survive?
• Always use traits or choose to?
Questions Answers
Let’s ReviewCore Lesson
2 Read through your resources to find the answers.
However, camouflage isn’t just about hiding from predators– it’s also about catching prey, and mimicry is useful for that, too. A different kind of mimicry, called aggressive mimicry, involves looking or acting like something else to trick and catch prey.
Answer
Let’s ReviewCore Lesson
2 Read through your resources to find the answers.
Luring with Body PartsIf you were a fish and you spotted a tasty worm, you’d go after it, right? But you’d be in big trouble if the worm happened to be inside the mouth of an alligator snapping turtle. This freshwater turtle has a pink, fleshy part of its tongue that it wiggles to imitate a live worm. A fish or frog enters the turtle’s mouth to check it out, and snap! The turtle has just caught its lunch.
Answer
Let’s ReviewCore Lesson
2 Read through your resources to find the answers.
Unlike other mollusks, coleoids are smart animal. Scientists who study octopuses think that most are about as smart as mice. One kind may be almost as brainy as a cat. The ability of coleoids to change how they look is not a reflex– they choose to do it!
Answer
Let’s ReviewCore Lesson
3 Write the answers in your notes.
Questions Answers• Other ways
to survive?
• Always use traits or choose to?
• Aggressive mimicry and luring
• Coleoids (like mollusks) choose colors and textures
Let’s ReviewCore Lesson
Look over the questions you wrote about the topic. 1
2 Read through your resources to find the answers.
3 Write the answers in your notes.
In this lesson you learned how to grow research for an
informational text by using resources to answer your
questions.
Let’s ReviewGuided PracticeFind one of your resources and look for answers to your chart questions. Highlight what you find!
Let’s ReviewExtension Activities
In this lesson we used highlighting to identify answers we found in our resources. What other ways can you identify important facts? See if you can make a list of 5.
Let’s ReviewExtension Activities
Make a checklist of steps needed to gather information. Number your paper and write what to do, starting from finding a resource and ending with filling in the chart. Share with a partner and see if they can follow it too!
Let’s ReviewQuick Quiz
Using your resources, go through the steps to complete your research chart.