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Having Fun with Common Core: Supporting Points

The main idea of
CCSS ELA Reading Informational Text #8 is encouraging kids to notice how
authors support their points. While it’s true that writers can state and support
their points in a wide variety of ways, one popular strategy in nonfiction
picture books is to state it directly on the first spread and then support it
with a different example on subsequent spreads.


























Integration
of Knowledge & Ideas #8

Kindergarten

Grade
1

Grade
2

With prompting and support,
identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.

Identify the reasons an
author gives to support points in a text.

Describe how reasons support
specific points the author makes in a text.

Grade 3

Grade 4

Grade 5

Describe the logical
connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (e.g.,
comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence).

Explain how an author uses
reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text.

Explain how an author uses
reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying
which reasons and evidence support which point(s).

For grades K, you can get kids started with a fun, easy book: Move! by Steve
Jenkins & Robin Page.

For grades 1 and 2 try:
A
Rainbow of Animals by Melissa Stewart

An Egg is Quiet by Dianna Hutts
Aston (illus. Sylvia Long)

A Seed is Sleepy by Dianna Hutts
Aston (illus. Sylvia Long)


A Butterfly is Patient by Dianna Hutts
Aston (illus. Sylvia Long)

For grade 3,
good choices include:

Never Smile at a Monkey by Steve
Jenkins & Robin Page

Wings by Sneed Collard

For grades 4-5,
I recommend:

Bird Talk by Lita Judge

Born to Be Giants by Lita Judge

How Many Ways Can You Catch a Fly? By Steve Jenkins

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