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Backward Design Lesson
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1. Additional Anchor Charts: http://www.clickandteachit.com/resources.cfm?subpage=630222
2. Additional Anchor Charts: http://www.jmeacham.com/anchorcharts.htm

This website is just a great source to have for what exactly text features are and how to use them in your classroom. I will refer to this website before teaching text features to my students. This website will be helpful for my Civil War unit and any other unit in my classroom.
2. {Text_Features PowerPoint.pptx}
the students.
3.Text Features Anchor Chart : http://christine-readingisthinking.blogspot.com/2010/07/text-features.html
This is a link to a great anchor chart for text features. This would be a helpful anchor chart to have hanging in the classroom all year for students to refer to. I will use this chart to help teach about text features during the Civil War unit and all other units needing it year round. Text features are important for students to know because many Civil War books have mass amounts of them and the students need to know how to use text features to expand their knowledge.

This website is just a great source to have for what exactly text features are and how to use them in your classroom. I will refer to this website before teaching text features to my students. This website will be helpful for my Civil War unit and any other unit in my classroom.
2. {Text_Features PowerPoint.pptx}
such as table of contents, index, glossary, and titles. I would use this powerpoint to teach my class about text features. If I chose not to use it to teach the students, I can use it as a way to teach myself before going over this subject with the students.
3.Text Features:Features Anchor Chart : http://christine-readingisthinking.blogspot.com/2010/07/text-features.html
This is a link to a great anchor chart for text features. This would be a helpful anchor chart to have hanging in the classroom all year for students to refer to. I will use this chart to help teach about text features during the Civil War unit and all other units needing it year round. Text features are important for students to know because many Civil War books have mass amounts of them and the students need to know how to use text features to expand their knowledge.

This website is just a great source to have for what exactly text features are and how to use them in your classroom. I will refer to this website before teaching text features to my students. This website will be helpful for my Civil War unit and any other unit in my classroom.
2. {Text_Features PowerPoint.pptx}
is great! It is a fun way to teach about text features such as
3.Text Features:
A text feature is detail that the author wants to get to the reader......
Examples of text features are:
white space underline italics boldface color boxes size capitalization title heading

1. Text Feature Informational Website: http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/o/textfeatures4l.cfm
This website is just a great source to have for what exactly text features are and how to use them in your classroom. I will refer to this website before teaching text features to my students. This website will be helpful for my Civil War unit and any other unit in my classroom.
2. {Text_Features PowerPoint.pptx}
This powerpoint is great!
3.Text Features:
A text feature is detail that the author wants to get to the reader......

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Backward Design Lesson

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SS5H1 The student will explain the causes, major events, and consequences of the Civil War.
b. Discuss how the issues of states’ rights and slavery increased tensions between the North and South.