Title: Reptiles – Day 1 Michael Cimino

Subject: Reading Workshop Date:

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Objectives Materials
1. Explore expository text structure • Book: Reptiles
2. Identify what they learn from a text • “Expository Text Features” Chart &
marker

Method/Procedure
1. Introduce expository text by telling Read pages 5–9 w/o stopping or showing
students that this type of nonfiction book
illustrations.
gives information that is usually a. Vocab
organized around a central topic.
b. Basks: lies or sits in a warm place
2. Introduce “Reptiles” and start the
c. scales: small hard flat plates that
“Expository Text Features” Chart.
cover the body of a reptile
a. Open to the copyright page and point out
d. moist: a little bit wet
the photograph with caption.
e. cold blooded: having a body
b. Explain that photographs in expository
temperature that changes as the air
texts usually come with captions that tell
or water temperature changes
what the photo shows.
c. Add “photographs & captions” to the 5. Re-read pages 5–9, stopping along the
“Expository Text Features” Chart. way to discuss the vocabulary.

d. Show the “Contents” and explain that this
is also an usual feature of expository
texts.
e. Add “table of contents” to the
“Expository Text Features” Chart.
3.
6. Discuss the text by asking
a. What did you learn about reptiles during
the reading?
b. What did you hear about reptiles that
surprised you?
7. Show the photographs and read the
accompanying captions.

Evaluation
1. Objective 1 was eval’ed in #2.
2. Objective 2 was eval’ed in #5a and 5b.

Reflection
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