Current Unit: Reading to Learn - Grasping Main Ideas and Text Structures
Students are learning:
Students are learning:
- How to Determine Importance in Expository Texts:
- Previewing non-fiction, identifying text structures, using prior knowledge, identifying main idea and supporting details, teaching others, reading fluently, tackling complexity
- How to Lift the Level of Thinking about Expository Text:
- Reading for significance, partner discussions, descriptive language
- How to Synthesize and Grow Ideas in Narrative Nonfiction
- Text structure, retell, summarizing, analyzing new information, teaching others
Student Anchor Charts