1 LESSON PLAN Monday, April 9 and Tuesday, April 10, 2012 LEARNING CENTER PERIODS 4 AND 8 Mrs. Friedman

2 LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1. Students will be able to paraphrase questions. 2. Students will be able to annotate and highlight text to improve comprehension. 3. Students will be able to identify the skill that questions are asking them to demonstrate. 4. Students will be able to locate information in a text that will help them answer questions.

3 STEP 1: READ AND ANALYZE THE QUESTIONS 1.Read each question and paraphrase. 2.Identify the skill the question is asking you to use (look at your list of skills). 3.Decide what you need to read in order answer the question (none, all, or part of one of both texts). 4.Decide whether or not the question is Explicit (on the surface) or Inferential (under the surface).

4 STEP 2: Read/Skim, Highlight/Annotate Text 1.Skim the texts. 2.Highlight or annotate parts of the texts that you think will help answer each question. (REMEMBER, YOU CAN WRITE ON YOUR CST TEST BOOKLET WHEN YOU TAKE THE TEST!). 3.Refer back to your annotated text to find the answers.

5 STEP 3: CHOOSE THE BEST ANSWER 1.Eliminate unlikely choices. 2.Choose the answer you think is the best one. 3.Go back and recheck your answers AFTER you have answered all of the questions in the section (your answers to one question may give you clues about the answer to another).

6 Input: Need to know vocabulary –Main Idea –Identifying Connections –Drawing Conclusions –Making Inferences –Explicit –Inferential –Annotate

7 Model: Step 1/”A Visit with the Folks”, Question #1 1.The dialogue in this story is generated from the narrator’s – Paraphrase: The conversation in this story comes from the reader’s 2. What skill do you need to answer this question? Answer: Drawing Conclusions 3. What do you need to read to answer this question? Answer: the entire text, but skim 4. What type of question is it? Answer: Inferential

8 STEP 2: READ/SKIM, HIGHLIGHT/ANNOTATE TEXT 1.Skim the texts. 2.Highlight or annotate parts of the texts that you think will help answer each question. (REMEMBER, YOU CAN WRITE ON YOUR CST TEST BOOKLET WHEN YOU TAKE THE TEST!). 3.Refer back to your annotated text to find the answers.

9 MODEL: STEP 3 1.Eliminate unlikely choices? B and C 2.Choose the answer you think is the best one. D 3.Go back and recheck your answers AFTER you have answered all of the questions in the section (your answers to one question may give you clues about the answer to another). We’ll do this later.

10 Guided Practice: Step 1 “A Visit with the Folks” Question #2 When the narrator says, “It slows the juices down...” he means: 2. Paraphrase the question: What does “slows down the juices” mean? 1. What skill do you need to answer this question? Drawing Conclusions Answer: 2. Which part of the text do you need to read? Answer: Just the paragraph with this quote. 3. What type of question is it? Answer: Inferential

11 GUIDED PRACTICE STEP 2: READ/SKIM, HIGHLIGHT/ANNOTATE TEXT 1.Skim the texts. 2.Highlight or annotate parts of the texts that you think will help answer each question. (REMEMBER, YOU CAN WRITE ON YOUR CST TEST BOOKLET WHEN YOU TAKE THE TEST!). 3.Refer back to your annotated text to find the answers.

12 GUIDED PRACTICE STEP 3 1.Eliminate unlikely choices? A & B 1.Choose the answer you think is the best one. D 2.Go back and recheck your answers AFTER you have answered all of the questions in the section (your answers to one question may give you clues about the answer to another). We’ll do this later.

13 Independent Practice 1.Complete questions 3 and 4 from “A Visit With the Folks”. 2.Remember that you will be graded on how well you answer the questions ABOUT the questions. Each answer (1-4 for each of the four questions) is worth one point. 3.If you also get the actual questions correct, you will earn one point of extra credit for each correct answer.

14 Assessment 1.Answer the questions based on “Breaking the Barrier” using the Three Steps (go back to slides 8-10 to review the steps) 2.Remember that you will be graded on how well you answer the questions ABOUT the questions. Each answer (1-4 for each of the four questions) is worth one point. 3.If you also answer the actual questions correctly, you will earn one point of extra credit for each correct answer. 4.The enrichment questions are worth two extra credit points each.