PlanLUSSDetermining Areas of Focus and Paraphrasing

GRADE: 8 SUBJECT: Language Arts UNIT: Background knowledge for Children of the River

STANDARD(S): English: 1.8.8 A, 1.8.8 C, 21 st Century: 1.1.6, 1.1.7

MATERIALS: research packet, LibGuides pathfinder

ESTIMATED # OF DAYS: 1

Lesson Essential Question:When answered at the end of the lesson, is it what I want students to be able to know, understand or be able to do?

EQ: How do I organize my research and take good research notes?Answer to EQ: I read a paragraph or short article sentence by sentence and make decisions if the information supports one of my areas of focus. If it does not, I skip that information and continue reading. If it does, then I need to decide which area of focus it supports and how to paraphrase the information.What do students need to learn to answer the EQ?AP Concept 1: Determining areas of focusAP Concept 2: Deciding whether information supports one of our areas of focusAP Concept 3: Paraphrasing information

Activating Strategy:

Vocabulary and Strategy: Vocabulary is best learned if taught with direct instruction as a preview and then re-taught in the context of the lesson.

Teaching Strategy with Distributed Summarizing:What instructional strategies will you use in your lesson? What graphic organizer will I use to organize how I want students to think about this content? Consider assessment prompts as regular checks for understanding. The strategy is how you will do it.

Graphic Organizer: research graphic organizer - (see attached)

Discuss what areas of focus are and why we need to determine them. Display a list of exemplars and non-exemplars.

AP1: Read a short article as a class Strategy: Think-pair-share – come up with 2-3 areas of focus.

Class sharing/discussion on areas of focus – list a variety of areas of focus that different pairs came up with.

AP2: Look at first sentence model determining importance Strategy: thumbs-up/thumbs-down – is it important

AP3: Model paraphrasing first sentence. Strategy: Students will complete paraphrasing practice worksheet with a partner.

Discuss students’ results as a class.

Summarizing:How will students summarize what they are learning at the end of the lesson?

Students will read the article provided to them on their topic to determine 3 to 5 areas of focus they will use in their research. Once those are approved, they will receive the appropriate graphic organizer and will then begin to locate supporting details to paraphrase in support of these areas.

WORDS: PLUSSArea of FocusSupporting detailparaphrase

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