Unit 4: Reading Informational Texts - The News Report

BRV.02 demonstrate understanding of the organizational structure and features of a variety of informational, narrative, and graphic texts, including opinion pieces, information paragraphs, textbooks, newspaper reports and magazine stories, and short fiction;
BRV.04 use a variety of strategies to understand unfamiliar and specialized words and expressions in informational, narrative, and graphic texts.

Specific Expectations:

BR2.06 use knowledge of the organizational structure of different types of non-fiction narratives (e.g., anecdote, recounting of events, biography, news report) and short fiction (e.g., dialogue, short story) to identify sequence of events and main ideas;
BR3.05 use appropriate strategies to track and record information and ideas while reading informational and narrative texts (e.g., use highlighter, note-taking, or a visual organizer to identify key facts, points in an argument, or events in a narrative);
BR3.06 use appropriate strategies to locate information in different types of texts, including:

• Informational texts (e.g., search for key words from a question about the selection to locate specific information);

BR3.09 demonstrate understanding of a variety of informational, narrative, and graphic texts commonly read in daily life (e.g., recipes, manuals, instructions, invoices, e-mails, encyclopedia entries, pamphlets, news reports, short stories, train schedules, bar graphs) by using and/or responding to them appropriately.