Lesson Thirteen Considering Craft

Get ready for a day of shared learning! You will be sharing all the learning you have done so far! Before that day, your group will need to decide how you want o share what you’ve learned within your group and with the class. Will you debate the first question you were given? Will you debate a new question that your group has developed? I expect that these debates will be richer and full of more evidence and that you’ll debate not only the content of your sources, but also who those sources are and how they present their arguments.

Tips to help you talk about your texts well You will need to grab readers attention (similar to writing) Use visual illustrations to help the reader get a stronger picture You’ve thought a lot about how the texts you have been reading are written, so include that!

Teaching Point! Today I wan tot remind you that readers think about, discuss, and write about texts on different levels. On one level, you can think about what they are about– their content. But another level of thinking about texts is to think more how authors’ choices have shaped that content and why.

What makes this powerful?

Which of these did the author of the video use?

Why did the author use _______ this technique?

Your job today is to… I want you to do the same level of thinking about your text that we did with this video today. When you’re reading, you need to pause when you notice an interesting technique has been used and ask, “Why did the author do that?”