Instructional Design Dr. Friesen has talked about designing instruction with informational text and how important it is. When we started designing out unit plans, we had to look at the standards. Not just or content standards but also the reading standards. Every unit needs standards in order to drive it. When it comes to the factors to think about when planning classroom instruction they are as followed: standards, assessment, essential questions, transfer goals, acquisition of knowledge and skills, how to get our students to the making meaning stage, and reflection. (Friesen, EDUC 420).
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We first had to find a group of people who we worked well with. We then had to discuss the time and place we wanted to meet and sign the document. We also had to figure out the different genres we had to read and which order we were going to read them. We started meeting and along the way we got better. We starting discussing more about how we would use it in the classroom, or if we would even use it in the classroom. We talked about the text features of the books that we either liked or disliked. We also decided to take the first fifteen to half hour taking about the genres and what to look