Convey the basic message, refine the message and control the message.
There is a lot of convincing information in here for students.
This could be valuable for editing and part of a writer's notebook.
Plan and deliver effective Reading Comprehension mini-lessons with this downloadable PDF that outlines the lesson in a 4-step lesson architecture:
- Step l: INTRODUCTION: You (re)introduce the skill.
- Step 2: INSTRUCTION: You explain and demonstrate the skill.
- Step 3: INTERACTION: They experience the skill.
- Step 4: CLOSURE: You crystallize the skill.
Use the template to create effective reading comprehension mini-lessons in your classroom today!
The link offers information about how to purchase "The Comprehension Playbook" for various grade levels.
This video explores...
"When educators take on the challenge of improving achievement in writing, a common starting point is to search for a robust writing curriculum. While an investment in a boxed curriculum may offer important guidance on what to teach, the curriculum alone will not improve writers.
A better starting point is to focus on how writing is being taught.
Regardless of the curriculum used, the real learning occurs during a daily writer’s workshop, where teachers commit to providing three components: direct instruction, writing time, and differentiated feedback. By focusing on how writing is being taught, educators create an optimal teaching environment for students to learn essential writing skills and standards."
Even though determining a text’s theme is an expectation from grades 1-12, many educators wrestle with how to teach this ELA standard—and plenty more students wrestle with how to figure it out.
To help students master inferring a text’s theme, teachers must make this abstract concept concrete and explicit. Here are three facets to an introductory lesson series.
This excellent has:
*A video to explain how to explicitly teach transitions
*Handouts/posters/writers' notebook pages with key transition phrases grouped by PURPOSE for K-2, 3-5, and 6-12.