caption: Team Brainstorm What can your team do to put more of a focus on informational text What are some specific examples
exif: {"Image DocumentName": "Team Brainstorm What can your team do to put more of a focus on informational text? What are some specific examples?", "Image ImageDescription": "K-5 Resources. Which informational selections are currently taught? Which are not? Are the main selections of HM enough to address the required balance? Is there a variety of informational text structures (expository and narrative)? 6-8 ELA. Which informational selections in Pearson are strong examples of literary non-fiction? Which selections are examples of argumentation? What additional resources do you have at your site? 6-8 Social Studies/Science. Identify chapters/lessons/resources where the author(s) present an argument that can be analyzed. Which text structures occur most frequently in your text? Consider the information that has been presented. Discuss the questions above with your group. Consult the following resources to help your discussion: K-5 \u2013 Informational texts list (ELA-HM, Science, Social Studies) in handout. 6-8 \u2013 Use the table of contents in the front of your TE. Note to presenters: Teachers will need to bring the following materials to the presentation: K-5 One person in a grade level should bring a current HM TE, SS TE, and FOSS student text. 6-8 TE (Science teachers should also bring a copy of the student text) K-5 outcome of discussion should note that an immediate solution to include more informational text would be to include teaching the Prep to read and the cross-curricular links along with the main selection of HM. Please pause the podcast at this point to complete the activity. 5-7 min.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}