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

Reading informational texts using the 3-2-1 strategy

http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=951

A lesson plan for Grades K–2 English Language Arts

Provider: IRA/NCTE

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

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After teacher modeling, students read a magazine article independently and use the 3-2-1 strategy to comprehend what they read. As an introduction to this lesson, the teacher engages students in a brainstorming activity that challenges them to list things they know about polar bears. After students read parts of an article about polar bears aloud to the class, the teacher models how to identify three new things they learned, two interesting facts, and one question they still have after the reading. After a brief review of the 3-2-1 reading strategy, students select and read an article from a magazine appropriate to the grade level. Students practice using the 3-2-1 strategy by completing a graphic organizer while reading the article. At the conclusion of the lesson, students share what they learned from reading their articles. Readwritethink provides suggestions for extension activities and links to 3-2-1 strategy handouts.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 1

  • Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.
    • Objective 1.05: Increase vocabulary, concepts, and reading stamina by reading self-selected texts independently for 15 minutes daily. Self-selected texts should be consistent with the student's independent reading level.
  • Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
    • Objective 2.01: Read aloud independently with fluency and comprehension any text that is appropriately designed for emergent readers.
    • Objective 2.03: Read and comprehend both fiction and nonfiction text appropriate for grade one using:
      • prior knowledge.
      • summary.
      • questions.
      • graphic organizers.
    • Objective 2.04: Use preparation strategies to anticipate vocabulary of a text and to connect prior knowledge and experiences to a new text.
    • Objective 2.05: Predict and explain what will happen next in stories.
    • Objective 2.06: Self-monitor comprehension by using one or two strategies (questions, retelling, summarizing).

Grade 2

  • Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.
    • Objective 1.04: Apply knowledge of all sources of information (meaning, language, graphophonics) to read a new text silently and independently.
    • Objective 1.05: Use a variety of strategies and skills to read self-selected texts independently for 20 minutes daily. Self-selected texts should be consistent with the student's independent reading level.
  • 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 2.05: Self-monitor own difficulties in comprehending independently using several strategies.

Kindergarten

  • Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies to read and write.
    • Objective 1.04: Read or begin to read.
      • Read or attempt to read own dictated story.
      • Attempt to read/reads simple patterned text, decodable text, and/or predictable texts using letter-sound knowledge and pictures to construct meaning.
    • Objective 1.05: Interact for at least 10 minutes daily with self-selected texts that are consistent with the student's independent reading level.
  • Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
    • Objective 2.01: Demonstrate sense of story (e.g., beginning, middle, end, characters, details).
    • Objective 2.03: Use preparation strategies to activate prior knowledge and experience before and during the reading of a text.
    • Objective 2.04: Formulate questions that a text might answer before beginning to read (e.g., what will happen in this story, who might this be, where do you think this happens).
    • Objective 2.05: Predict possible events in texts before and during reading.
    • Objective 2.06: Understand and follow oral-graphic directions.