Comparing Text Structures – One Lesson
Posted on February 9, 2016Share This Content
close reading of informational text
Liberate your students! In the beginning, give them the main idea!!!
Posted on September 25, 2015Do your students hesitate when you ask, “What is the main or central idea of this source?” Why? There may be a couple of reasons. Many students have not had enough experience with identifying main ideas to identify them easily. And they may have only a superficial understanding of key vocabulary in a main idea. …Read more
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Analysis of Responses to 8th Grade Text Set & Prompt, Part 2
Posted on April 27, 2015In the last blog entry, I shared a rigorous text set and prompt developed by an middle school ELA team. The team and I met (via Webinex) to discuss the students’ written responses. First we look at the strengths of each student’s analytic essay; then we discuss the students’ needs as writers. Integrated into this …Read more
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Do students understand what we mean by “key details”?
Posted on April 21, 2015Is the term “key details” vague for your students? I’m teaching 2nd/3rd grade students this week and trying out an anchor chart that attempts to make the term “key details” more concrete for students. I think a “key detail” might change depending on what our purpose is for reading. Here are a few of the …Read more
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Teaching the language of text structures can help students compare and contrast texts more easily (e.g., The author shares a problem and then several solutions… I noticed the author describes about multiple aspects of the….). What follows is a demo lesson I gave to introduce students to using the language of text structure to help …Read more