Scientific Texts

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ELA - Scientific Texts

2/10/21

Open Ended

First, a "riddle"...What kind of dog do scientists have?

A labratory retriever!

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EQ: What are scientific and technical texts?

Let's read this aloud together:

Objective: I can identify scientific and technical texts, recognize their structures and the graphic features that they contain.

Multiple Choice

What are we talking about today?

• Scientific and technical texts

• Historical texts

• Myths

• Fiction stories

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Scientific texts tell the reader about a science topic.

Technical texts give details about how to do something, or how something works.

Multiple Select

Think about the definition of a scientific text. What are some examples of scientific texts?

• A book about how plants grow

• Instructions for setting up the Nintendo Switch

• A recipe in for a cake

• A magazine article about Arctic mammals

Multiple Select

Think about the definition of a technical text. What are some examples of technical texts?

• A book about how plants grow

• Instructions for setting up the Nintendo Switch

• A recipe in for a cake

• A magazine article about Arctic mammals

Like all nonfiction texts, scientific and technical texts have a main idea, and supporting details.

For example...

In a recipe, the main idea is the food that you're making.

The details are the ingredients and steps that you follow.

For example....

• In a science experiment, the result of the experiment is the main idea, the steps of the experiment are the details.

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TEXT STRUCTURES

-Steps in a process - tells how to do something

Multiple Choice

What text structure that we already know about does "Steps in a process" remind you of?

• Cause and effect

• Problem and solution

• Sequence

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• Problem and solution

• Cause and effect

Multiple Select

What are the scientific text structures that you've written in your notes so far?

• Problem and solution

• Whole to part

• Steps in a process

• Cause and effect

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• Whole-to-part text structure starts with the main idea (the "whole"), the supporting details are the "parts."

• Spatial text structure organizes details by the space they take up. (ex. top, middle, bottom, north, south, left..)

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Graphic features in a scientific/technical text might include:

-diagrams,

-models,

-tables, charts, and graphs,

-(4th grade only) symbols - a shape or letter that stands for an idea (+, -, °F)