Current Unit: Foundation Skills
Students will be able to demonstrate their ability to independently read, evaluate, and comprehend challenging text by thinking visible with active reading strategies, identifying main ideas and elaborations, clarifying information using thinking charts, expanding their vocabulary, and articulating understanding through sentence mastery.
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Mentor Text: "The Benefits of Laughter"
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Foundation Skills 2 Column Notes - QUIZ MAKE UPS
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Active Reading Assignment - "Malala the Powerful"
Directions:
- Read the Scholastic Scope magazine, "Malala the Powerful". CLICK for link. **The file has worksheets attached to it. You do NOT have to complete the worksheets attached to the file for the article**
- As you read the article, complete the assignment to the left:
- Find 1 academic vocabulary word (multi meaning). Cite with page and paragraph number.
- Find 1 domain specific vocabulary word (1 specific definition). Cite with page and paragraph number.
- Annotate 3 times. You may choose to use Text Codes, Response Starters, Quotation Response, or a combination of the 3. Be sure to cite each annotation with a page and paragraph number.
- Summarize what you read in 1 paragraph.