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09/10/14
R.4.1
Key Ideas and Details
1. Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly
and when drawing inferences from the text.
Materials Needed
Lesson from: Strategies That Work by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis
Mentor Text: Eye of the Storm by Stephen Kramer
Materials: post it notes and pen/pencil.
Student Groups (whole/small group/partners): small groups of 4-5.
Teach (Model/Explain)
I will read from page 29 from the mentor text to display my own Aha moment. I will stop on the
sentence how light or dark a tornado looks depends on the amount of light in the sky and whether
or not the sun is shining on the front or back of the tornado. I will then take my own sticky note,
write an L, and describe what I had learned when reading it.
Link (Articulating the expectation that students will now use this skill/strategy when reading or
writing)
Students will be able to use this when reading other informational texts. It is important for students
to notice their inner thinking in order to remember the information they are seeing.