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Reporting Category 3

Compare/Contrast and Cause/Effect

Compare/Contrast

Lesson with Practice Activities

Compare/Contrast an Article

Everyday Use - You will need the short story Everyday Use by Alice Walker

News View - Newspaper Activity

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words - This lesson requires a lot of things...

Cinderella Around the World

Rip, You're Sleepin' Your Life Away - The Story by Washington Irving's -

Rip Van Winkle

Likeable Differences

What Is the True Story of The Three Little Pigs?

Cause/Effect

More Lesson Plans and Activities

Practice #1

PowerPoint

Pre-Test

Post-Test

Cause and Effect Toss Game

Cause or Effect

Cause-and-Effect Scavenger Hunt - You will need the story The Lion, The Witch,

and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Just Because - You will need - -

The Bath (Sullivan, Carolyn, Melcher, Chet H., Blaga, Jeffrey J.,

Lucas, Mark R., and Skoglund, Philip. The Bath. Racine, WI: GROW Publications, 1995.)

Match It Up ! - You will need...-Copies of poem, "The Tongue Sticker Outer"

from Falling Up by Shel Silverstein
-Copies of poem, "Sarah Cynthia Slyvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out"

from Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
-Copies of poem, "Strange Restaurant" from Falling Up by Shel Silverstein

Reporting Category 1

(Words in Context, Inference & Predicting)/

Reporting Category 2

(Author's Purpose, Story elements, Characters, Main Idea & Details)/

Reporting Category 3

(Compare/Contrast and Cause/Effect)/

Reporting Category 4

(Summarizing, Fact/Opinion, Drawing Conclusions, Research Skills,

Clarifying, and Sequencing)/

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Recording Category 4

Analyzing Information - (Summarizing, Fact/Opinion, Drawing Conclusions, Research Skills, Clarifying and Sequence)

Summarizing

Strategies

Lesson Plan

In Summary - Students need the same textbook

Fact/Opinion

Practice #1

Practice #2

Practice #4

Lesson and Activities

Lesson Part 2 and Activities

Web Links - Lessons and Activities

A Goldfish is the Best Pet

Fact and Opinion Detectives

Is that a Fact? Newspaper Activity

Is that a Fact? Reading the Newspaper

Prove it! Fact or Opinion - You will need a box of fruits and veggies.

Research Skills

Hey Mom, Are We There Yet?

I’m Convinced! You will need a LARGE jar of peanut butter and plastic spoons

for everyone.

Cite Your Sites

Just the Facts

Reading Charts and Graphs

Listeners for Life - I didn't know where to put this, but knew it was

an IMPORTANT skill.

Drawing Conclusions

The Talking Eggs Lesson and Story

Pre-Test

Classified Clues - You will need a dead or dying plant.

In Conclusion

Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions - You will need -Copies of the poem,

"The Tongue Sticker Outer" from Falling Up by Shel Silverstein
-Copies of the poem, "Sybil the Magician's Last Show" from Falling Up by Shel Silverstein
-Copies of the poem "Nope" from Falling Up by Shel Silverstein

Clarifying

Clarifying Unfamiliar Words

Connecting and Clarifying Main Idea - 20 Kids, 20 Kites, 20 Minutes

Come On, You Can Trust Me

The story by Vanallsburg, Chris. Two Bad Ants and 4 microscopes

(make friends with a science teacher) ;-)

You Do Judge a Book by Its Cover - Judging

Do You See What I See?

I Choose Card # . . . - Problem/Solution

Think Fast! What Would You Do If . . . - Video Camera and tapes

Sequencing

Meet Me at My House - You will need a class set of city maps.