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By the end of the period, students will demonstrate close reading by highlighting and annotating on a short essay. Students will know: how to apply close reading strategies to what they read.
By the end of the period, students will demonstrate close reading by highlighting and annotating on a short essay. Students will know: how to apply close reading strategies to what they read.
By the end of the period, students will demonstrate close reading by highlighting and annotating on a short essay. Students will know: how to apply close reading strategies to what they read.
Unit Title: ______Close Reading Strategies______________________________
Established Goals: By the end of the period, students will demonstrate close reading by highlighting and annotating on a short essay. 7th grade science class. Understandings: Students will understand that Understanding of a texts features, structures, and characteristics facilitate the readers ability to make meaning of the text.
Essential Questions: How does using close reading strategies help me better comprehend what I am reading?
Students will know:
how to apply close reading strategies to what they read.
Students will be able to:
show evidence of close reading
write an essay based on their closereading notes
STAGE 2 ASSESSMENT EVIDENCE
Performance Tasks: Other Evidence: Summative: Students will write a one-paragraph Formative: Evidence of close readingresponse to the essay they close read. highlighting, underlining, annotation, questions Self-assessment: Compare notes taken with what librarian takes to see if they are similar. Key Criteria: Students are able to answer the prompt using given vocabulary words correctly and referencing their close reading annotations.
STAGE 3 LEARNING PLAN
Summary of Learning Activities: W: Help the students know where the using is going and what is expected. Help the teacher know where the students are coming from (prior knowledge, interests). H: Hook all students and hold their interest E: equip students, help them experience key ideas, explore the issues. R: provide opportunities to revise and rethink their understandings and work E: allow students to evaluate their work and its implications T: tailored to the different needs, interests, abilities of learners O: organized to maximize initial and sustained engagement as well as effective learning Source: Understanding by Design, Unit Design Planning Template (Wiggins/McTighe 2005)
See if kids have heard of close reading. What classes? H
Hand out short essay that we are close reading together. Show a picture of highlighted text book. Whats wrong with this? H Look over the essay. Find out why kids are reading this. Thats the focus for reading. (Often the response question/assignment) W 5. Use the Smart/Promethean board to show how to close read the first paragraph together. E 6. Underline or circle/highlight important facts, vocab words. Ask questionsjot in the margins E 7. Write the definitionssynonyms E 8. Answers to questions should be written down unless they are not answered by the reading. 9. Have students complete close reading of the rest of the article. T 10. Discuss their close reading. Look over my example and compare to theirs. Need to add anything? E2, R 11. Have students practice writing a paragraph answering the prompt, using facts from the reading. R 12. Two-column notes for close reading text from a textbook: describe that the left side can be labeled in many ways. Questions, vocabulary, confusion all work. The right side can then be answers, definitions, or evidence. E 13. Read through first section of the chapter together, taking notes on the Promethean board while students take notes in their notebooks. R 14. Give the students a chance to practice close reading and note taking for the next section while taking notes on the Promethean board. Discuss why I chose to write down what I did and that I am not using full sentences, just short descriptive words. R, E2, T, O 15. Students have the rest of the class period to work on notes and ask questions while the teacher and I roam the room looking to see if anyone needs additional help. R, T
Source: Understanding by Design, Unit Design Planning Template (Wiggins/McTighe 2005)