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ELD Literacy Support

Unit 3 Essential Questions: What makes us the same? What makes us different?
= February 28, 2011 =

Students will:
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 * summarize details and main ideas from a nonfiction text.
 * learn new vocabulary.
 * Idea Webs page 190

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 * Checking homework today:
 * Go to the Night Library for extra help!

=__Agenda__=

** This agenda is available online at: http://beginningeld.wikispaces.com/2-28-11 **

1. Students enter the room and copy the learning objectives and homework. This should only take about 2 or 3 minutes. After students have copied the work, read/explain the learning objectives to students.

2. Continuing the "Using the How to Summarize a Paragraph Strategy on Article 2" work from Friday.
 * On Friday, students began to use the reading strategy on page 191 of the Edge Textbook (Red Text) to summarize Article 2 from the Persuasive Unit packet. __Students have these materials__. To see a picture of the notes I took when teaching this strategy on Friday CLICK HERE. Be sure to hit "Ctrl -" to zoom out because this is a large image.
 * In Article 2, there are 17 paragraphs and we have "chunked" those paragraphs into 10 sections. Students will create a Summary Chart for each section. The paragraphs are chunked as follows: 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 4-8, 9, 10-11, 12, 13-14, 15-16, 17 (for a total of 10 sections, 10 Summary Charts).
 * On Friday, we finished 1-2 and 3-4 in class.
 * Today, have students work in small groups of 3 to 4 to finish as much as possible of this task.
 * Tell students they will have 30 minutes to complete 5 more Summary Charts today (that is, by the end of the class they should be through section 7 or paragraph 12 of the text).
 * Tomorrow they will have some time to finish the final 3 sections.
 * If some students finish early or if they already finished this task at home, feel free to ask those students to help the students who are still working on this task.
 * Do not allow students to "save this for homework". Tell them to use the class time to do this work.

3. 2/28/11 Idea Web page 190
 * Tell students to copy the above title into their notebooks.
 * Have students begin this assignment (it's their homework).
 * If time does not permit you to begin this activity, remind students that they must finish it at home
 * The instructions are in the bottom right corner of page 190. Please review the instructions with students before they begin or before they leave class. The instructions for the assignment are just as they are printed in the textbook.

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