Utilizing challenging pieces of text in our content area classrooms is a great way to support students in both their content area comprehension and their literacy growth. When accessing a piece of text in your class, how can you get students critically thinking, writing, listening, and speaking? How can you scaffold instruction so that each student (regardless of their literacy strengths and areas of need) can access the text and apply what they know? How can you connect a piece of text to the experiences, interests, and funds of knowledge that a student already brings into the classroom? Informational texts are a great way for students to experience cause\/effect, compare\/contrast, problem\/solution, process, and more text structures! What does a challenging piece of informational text look like in your content area?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Review the following resources before you begin your assignment, as they will inform your work. In parenthesis, there are guiding questions to help guide your thinking and instructional planning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Identify a challenging piece of informational text that relates to your content area. This could be an article, journal, report, graph, etc. Explain why you chose the informational text that you did, and include a citation for where you located it. (In your content area specifically, what does a challenging piece of informational text look like?)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Create a learning activity with the informational text you selected that will: (1) measure and assess students’ vocabulary comprehension and (2) teach the students how to access the features of the text. (How can you engage students in the process of vocabulary comprehension? How can you scaffold reading so students can access the text?)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Design a writing prompt based on the informational text that will require students to answer with a claim, evidence, and reasoning statement.\u00a0(What can you ask the students about the informational text that will allow for them to synthesize their learning through writing?)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Explain how the writing prompt you designed will allow for you to measure each student’s language and literacy needs. What will you do for students based on how they answer the writing prompt?\u00a0(What are you looking for them to be able to do? What will you do if they do not get it the first time?)<\/em>Part 2<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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For this assignment, utilize\u00a0the medium of your choice<\/strong>. Think about how you would deliver this information to a focus student (Google Slides? Video? Adobe Spark? Diagrams? etc.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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