About This Lesson
This is a first grade ELA Unit, Lesson 2 out of 12. All About Living Things: Learning to Navigate and Create Informational Texts - What Do Great Readers Do? Asking and answering questions about key details in a text is the central standard for this lesson. The lesson uses a gradual release of responsibility from teacher think aloud, to shared question-asking and answering, to independent use of a question asking strategy, to help student ask and answer key detail questions. Aligned to CCSS: RI.K.1 , RI.K.5 , RI.1.1 , RI.1.5 , RI.1.7 , R.1.10 , R.1 , RL.1.5 , W.1 , W.1.7