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Unit 4 Writing Assignment

Reading Strategy 1: Inferential Comprehension (Inferring, Predicting, and Questioning throughout the text)

“Inferential comprehension allows the reader to apply personal background knowledge and understanding in order to comprehend the text. The reader draws connections between events in the text, and the reader draws conclusions based on inferences and connections that are not explicitly stated in the text” (Wilkins, 2021).

The students will look at the title of the text and make predictions about what they think the text is going to be about. The teacher will ask the following questions to students: 1. Have you ever seen a frog in person? 2. Did you see the frog jump? 3. What do you think Calaveras County is? 4. How do you know this?

These questions will leave students guessing about what the story will be about. It also allows students to become more interested in what they are about to read now that they have experienced some dealings with a frog. While reading the text, the teacher will stop every other paragraph and ask questions about the text. For every answer, the students must use evidence from the text to support their answer.

Reading Strategy 2: Monitoring for vocabulary recognition

While reading, the teacher will occasionally stop to pull out vocabulary words. The students will use clues from the text to determine what the word means. This will give students a better understanding of the text. Students will use a vocabulary organizer to write down the unknown words, tell where the word is found in the text, and write down the meaning that they come up with. The students will tell why they came up with that meaning for the vocabulary word. Use evidence from the text to help.

Reading Strategy 3: Summarizing the text.

Give students a graphic organizer on summarizing text. While reading, the students will fill in the main characters of the text. Next students will tell what each character did in the text. Then the character will find the problem that the character had and tell how the problem was resolved if it was solved. Next the student will take the information from the graphic organizer to summarize the text. The summary should include what the story was about along with the important points. All elements of a story should be used in the summary. This strategy allows the teacher and the student to see if they comprehend the text. Summarizing helps students to put important details that they have read together to show that they process what they read.

Reading Strategy 4: Close Reading

“Close reading is the detailed study and analysis of a reading passage” (Wilkins, 2021). The teacher will have students to highlight specific characteristics in the text. For example, highlight characteristics of the text that help you develop a theme in yellow. Highlight the traits of the characters in blue. Do any of your highlights overlap. They will overlap and this allows the students to see that each part of the text relates in some way. After close reading, students will come up with the theme of the passage.

References

Mississippi Department of Education (2016). Mississippi college and career readiness for mathematics scaffolding document seventh grade. Retrieved from mdek12default.org/sites/default/files/Offices/Secondary%20Ed/ELA/ccr/Math/07.Grade-7-Math-Scaffolding-Doc-pdf

Wilkins, C. (2021). Teaching reading and math power point lectures. Retrieved from

https://belhaven.instructure.com/courses/33159/pages/unit-4-ppt-lectures-

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