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Using Text Features Lesson Plan

Using Text Features Lesson Plan

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Investigate a "table of contents" with your students! They read the table of contents in Deserts by Darlene R. Stille and predict where the answers to specific questions might be found. Learners complete a worksheet in which they find answers to questions and record the page number on which the answer can be located.

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nonfiction text features, nonfiction, the table of contents, the parts of a book, text structure, deserts

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deserts, nonfiction text features, table of contents, text structure, using the table of contents, science

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Grade

2nd - 3rd

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For Teacher Use

Duration

45 mins

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Common Core

RI.2.1 RI.2.5 RI.2.8 SL.2.2

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