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Standard 4 : Researching
Cluster Standards

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  • ELA.K.C.4.1 : Recall information to answer a question about a single topic.
Cluster Information
Number:
ELA.K.C.4
Title:
Researching
Type:
Standard
Subject:
English Language Arts (B.E.S.T.)
Grade:
K
Strand
Communication
Cluster Access Points

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Interactive Research Pages
Lesson Plans
  • The Flag We Love - Make a Personal Flag: This is lesson #6 in the text unit series for The Flag We Love. This lesson is a culminating activity that focuses on students’ recall of information from the text to answer the question: ”Why is the flag an important symbol of the United States?”. To demonstrate learning, students will use their knowledge of a symbol to create a personal flag and write a statement indicating why it is a meaningful symbol of themselves.

    This resource uses a book that is on the Florida Department of Education's reading list. This book is not provided with this resource.

  • People at My School Part 3: Students will complete a journal entry describing the role of one school authority figure at school as someone who helps others and makes rules to keep students safe. Using notes from previous interviews to guide their writing, students will recall at least one piece of information about the school authority figure’s responsibilities at school to make rules. In this lesson, students will draw their entries and include written or dictated information about the school authority figure. 

  • Zoo-rrific!: Students will be asked to choose a new animal for a zoo. They will be asked to rank four animals from best to worst, based on popularity, food needs, danger to zookeepers, etc.

    Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. MEAs resemble engineering problems and encourage students to create solutions in the form of mathematical and scientific models. Students work in teams to apply their knowledge of science and mathematics to solve an open-ended problem, while considering constraints and tradeoffs. Students integrate their ELA skills into MEAs as they are asked to clearly document their thought process. MEAs follow a problem-based, student centered approach to learning, where students are encouraged to grapple with the problem while the teacher acts as a facilitator. To learn more about MEA’s visit: https://www.cpalms.org/cpalms/mea.aspx

  • Bear Necessities - Lesson 1 of 3: In this lesson, students will learn about the topic of brown bears by asking questions and gaining information from a non-fiction, informational text. Students will listen for key details in the text and recall information that will be demonstrated through drawing and writing.

  • Bear Necessities - Lesson 2 of 3: In the first lesson in this series, students practiced identifying a topic and multiple details about brown bears. Now the students will learn about polar bears using a K-W-L chart and a non-fiction text. Students will practice recalling details and using full sentences to share new learning with a partner.

  • Identifying Explicit Information in Fiction: In this lesson, students will practice identifying explicit information in fiction. In the teacher modeling and guided practice activities, the featured text is Stellaluna by Janell Cannon. The passage for independent practice is provided with the resource.

  • Polar Bear Polar Bear: In this lesson, students will practice identifying the topic and details in a nonfiction text about polar bears. They will work at completing a K-W-L chart with the teacher to help organize their thinking and think of questions that they have about this amazing animal. Students will also complete an independent assignment where they draw a picture of the topic and two details that they learned demonstrating what they have learned.