Variety of Texts

Mere som dette

Peter Pan

af Louise Virenfeldt Iversen

Running Worklist

af christian allaire

Knowledge Construction

af Mohd Fuad Mohamed Yusof

Natural Resources Thematic Unit Grade 4

af Kim Wheeler

Cross-curricular Links

Themes that Link Language, Guidance and Health

Physical Challenges Courage Bullying Taking a Stand Growing Up Truthfulness

Link Language, Social Science, and Mathematics

Memoirs Poetry Picture Books Science Fiction Historical Fiction Guinness Book of World Records

Link Language and Arts

Biographies How-to books Books based on Art

Text Selection

Features of the Text

Reader

Purpose for Reading

Instructional Approach

Variety of Texts

Main topic

Text Forms

Functional Texts

EX. memos, brochures, advertisements

Reports

EX. essays, diaries, journals

Procedural Texts

EX. directions, recipes, rule books

Text Categories

Poetry

Non-Fiction

Memoir

Biography

Autobiography

Fiction

Sci-fi

Myth

Mystery

Fantasy

Fairy Tale

Fable

Epic

Adventure

Why do we choose what we choose?

Reading Level

Frustrating (<90% understanding)

Read-alouds, Shared reading

Instructional (90-94% understanding)

Guided reading

Independent (95-100% understanding)

Independent reading

Subtopic

Cultural Background

Based on Interests

Where Does it come from?

Translation Programs

Digital Cameras

Audio

Digital (Devices)

Library