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Number: LAFS.2.RI.4

Title: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

Type: Cluster

Subject: English Language Arts - Archived

Grade: 2

Strand: Reading Standards for Informational Text

This cluster includes the following benchmarks

Code	Description
LAFS.2.RI.4.10:	By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 2–3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

This cluster includes the following access points.

Access Point Number	Access Point Title
LAFS.2.RI.4.AP.10a:	Choose informational text to read and reread, listen to or view for understanding.
LAFS.2.RI.4.AP.10b:	Choose text to read and reread, listen to or view for informational purposes (e.g., to answer questions; to understand the world around them).
LAFS.2.RI.4.AP.10c:	Discuss key details and main topic of an informational text.

Vetted resources educators can use to teach the concepts and skills in this topic.

Name	Description
Use the Force! Racing Zucchini:	Students will be investigating the effect of various pushes and pulls on on objects and seeing that the greater the force applied, the greater the change in motion. Students will be using hands-on activities and then build and race their own zucchini car to better understand the concept of force and motion.
Ants in Your Pants! - Part 2:	In this lesson, students will learn how to find the central idea of the passage, Ants in Action. Students will also discuss what makes a fluent reader and participate in paired reading with a partner.
Ants in your Pants! - Part 3:	Now that your students have become interested in this amazing animal, it is time to learn more by starting a research project. Students will use multiple sources and a graphic organizer to record new facts about ants in preparation to complete an expository writing piece in the next lesson.
It's Attracted:	In this lesson, students will use informational text to gather information on objects made of matter that have properties that make them either attracted or not attracted to magnets.

Name	Description
Comprehension: Plenty of Predictions:	In this activity, students will make and confirm predictions before, during, and after reading teacher-selected text (narrative or expository) using a graphic organizer.
Comprehension: Strategies Game:	In this activity, students will use multiple reading strategies to answer questions and comprehend text.
Comprehension: Question Cards:	In this activity, students will answer questions to comprehend text.

Standard 4 : Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity (Archived)