Sentences with phrase «teaches close reading skills»

Designed for grades 5 - 8, Amplify Close Reading is an interactive graphic novel that teaches close reading skills in a creative, differentiated, and highly rigorous way.

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Contents: 3 pages teaching notes for the Word Detective bundle Word Detectives packet: 5 lesson plans with engaging readings, worksheets for vocabulary and reading comprehension skills including inferences, close reading, word analysis, and and context clues, with related games and quizzes — about 1 week.

As a close look at the data from PISA reveals, the income gap in the United States does not explain the inability of our schools to teach our students basic math, science and reading skills.

You can discuss social - emotional issues while teaching close - reading and speaking skills like annotation, note taking, coming up with critical questions, and practicing discussion techniques.

Indeed, while elements of Common Core's ELA standards emphasize «close reading» and «finding evidence» and imply the teaching of reading skills in a manner disconnected from the knowledge embedded in and presumed by the assigned texts, other parts of Common Core firmly reiterate the premise that «knowledge is intimately linked to reading comprehension ability» (see Appendix A, p. 4).

The Teaching Strategies listed here guide teachers step - by - step as they cultivate close reading and close viewing skills.

The robust AP Teacher Manual is tightly integrated with the Student Edition and offers lesson plans and strategies for teaching close reading and writing skills.

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.