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Let Me Ask You A Question

  • Grade 5
  • English
  • Reading and Interpretation

Description

In this activity, students explore the prescribed text—the interview. Students read interviews, identify the important ideas of the text, then write them in their own words. They also identify the purpose and certain characteristics of the prescribed texts. At the end, they share their summary with a classmate.

Learning goals

  • I identify the purpose of a variety of interviews and identify their common characteristics.
  • I summarize important information found in an interview in my own words.

Vocabulary

  • prescribed text: the interview
  • procedural text
  • literary text
  • informational text
  • key words
  • identify
  • read
  • purpose
  • things in common
  • summarize
  • information
  • your own words