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K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Listen, look, and learn: An information-gathering process

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A lesson plan for Grades 1–2 English Language Arts

Provider: IRA/NCTE

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Appropriate grades
1–2
Subjects
English language arts (reading), thinking skills (information literacy)
Provider
IRA/NCTE

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In this lesson, primary students will work together as a class to seek information on the sloth. A variety of resources and formats will be used with notes recorded on an information wheel graphic organizer. Guiding the listening, looking, and learning process helps students gain confidence and develop strategies for gathering information independently. The teacher explains how to use this information note-taking in a way that can help them write reports in the future.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 1

  • Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
    • Objective 2.02: Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of texts (storybooks, short chapter books, newspapers, telephone books, and everyday print such as signs and labels, poems, word plays using alliteration and rhyme, skits and short plays).
    • Objective 2.03: Read and comprehend both fiction and nonfiction text appropriate for grade one using:
      • prior knowledge.
      • summary.
      • questions.
      • graphic organizers.
    • Objective 2.07: Respond and elaborate in answering what, when, where, and how questions.

Grade 2

  • Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
    • Objective 2.01: Read and comprehend both narrative and expository text appropriate for grade two by:
      • determining purpose (reader's and author's).
      • making predictions.
      • asking questions.
      • locating information for specific reasons/purposes.
      • recognizing and applying text structure.
      • comprehending and evaluating author's decisions and word choice.
      • determining fact and opinion.
      • recognizing and comprehending figurative language.
      • making inferences and drawing conclusions.
    • Objective 2.02: Use text for a variety of functions, including literary, informational, and practical.
    • Objective 2.03: Read expository materials for answers to specific questions.
    • Objective 2.04: Pose possible how, why, and what if questions to understand and/or interpret text.
    • Objective 2.06: Recall main ideas, facts and details from a text.
    • Objective 2.08: Interpret information from diagrams, charts, and maps.