Plant Structures and their Functions

A caption reveals important information to a reader. Use this lesson with your students to teach them about plant structures and their functions, while they learn how to be a text feature author.

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to create captions that describe the function of plant structures.

Introduction

(3 minutes)

Show students a page from an informational text that contains a photograph and a caption. Point to the caption and ask students to identify the name of the text feature and its purpose.
Tell students that a caption is a text feature that gives information about an illustration or photograph.
Explain that today’s lesson will give the class the opportunity to become caption writers as they learn about plant structures and their functions.
Guide students in a choral read of the learning objective.

Lesson Plan

Plant Structures and their Functions

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Learning Objectives

Introduction