Not exact matches
Although the Common Core ELA standards are comprehensive and address a broad range of communication
skills, they place particular emphasis
on five key areas:
reading informational text,
reading complex text,
close reading and citing text evidence, writing arguments, and research.
This worked well to consolidate some of those important
reading skills we had been working on as we familiarised ourselves with the WJEC Fiction Reading paper format while also allowing them so additional creativity as the term drew to a
reading skills we had been working
on as we familiarised ourselves with the WJEC Fiction
Reading paper format while also allowing them so additional creativity as the term drew to a
Reading paper format while also allowing them so additional creativity as the term drew to a
close.
A second goal was to build students»
reading and writing
skills, with particular focus
on close reading.
In addition, many standards we have focus
on close reading and critical thinking
skills.
This detailed and high quality unit includes: * 33 lesson plans (with 13 differentiation strategies) * 147 slide PowerPoint presentation (divided into lessons) * All resources and worksheets (9 sheets) * Homework project (9 tasks) that includes both
reading and writing
skills Unit's lessons include: * Cloze activity
on the play's contexts * Detailed, thorough comprehension questions
on each scene * Spelling tests
on key vocabulary * SPaG starter activities * Character crosswords * Huge 60 - question revision quiz * In - depth key scene analyses (including group work) * Exploring characters - Helen, Jo, Peter, Boy, Geof * Exploring themes - marriage, motherhood, relationships * AfL activities - improving sample exam responses * Essay planning * Writing a formal essay
on a chosen character * Writing a formal essay
on a chosen theme * «
Closed book» mock exam to reflect new GCSE exam expectations * Teacher / peer / self assessment opportunities
The chapters and concepts build
on each other and were designed to help students master
close reading skills.
In the context of an exciting dystopian adventure, students learn to analyze complex texts, focusing
on key
close reading skills such as responding to text - dependent questions and unpacking the ways authors persuade and convey meaning.
Across grades, instruction focuses
on developing students»
close reading skills, ability to think critically about texts, and use of textual evidence to support their conclusions.
Most practically, given that high - stakes tests will emphasize
close reading, it's a safe bet that English teachers will feel pressed to spend plenty of time teaching this particular
skill rather than focusing
on a more traditional approach to teaching literature.
One of the most important
skills I teach my students as we begin to work
on close reading is how to annotate texts.
Additional ASCD Publications Available in February In addition to 17,000 Classroom Visits Can't Be Wrong, ASCD has released a new professional development publication that covers
close reading and two ASCD Arias titles that focus
on building students» critical thinking, research, and problem - solving
skills.
«The goal of
Reading WonderWorks is to close the achievement gap among students, help struggling students develop foundational reading and writing skills in a self - paced and flexible environment starting as early as kindergarten, and accelerate them so that they can read on grade level and graduate with the confidence they need to succeed in college and beyond.
Reading WonderWorks is to
close the achievement gap among students, help struggling students develop foundational
reading and writing skills in a self - paced and flexible environment starting as early as kindergarten, and accelerate them so that they can read on grade level and graduate with the confidence they need to succeed in college and beyond.
reading and writing
skills in a self - paced and flexible environment starting as early as kindergarten, and accelerate them so that they can
read on grade level and graduate with the confidence they need to succeed in college and beyond.»
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