Students will learn how to use text features to locate information and verify answers within an expository text.  

Third grade students will identify and discuss facts and details from expository text and draw conclusions using textual evidence in learning stations.

In this lesson, students integrate relevant text evidence and background knowledge to generate valid inferences when reading a historical fiction text. The lesson was designed with English learners in mind, so it includes instructional strategies designed to make linguistic and content input comprehensible: a focus on vocabulary, visuals, cooperative learning, anchor charts, graphic organizers, and sentence stems/frames.