1. Professional Development Presented By: Angela Eaton
S.U.R.E. Strategy
Professional Development Presented
By: Angela Eaton

2. Ticket In (2 sticky response)
What strategy do you currently use in your classroom to help your students answer questions to demonstrate understanding text?
How does the strategy you listed monitor student thinking and insure they understand text?
Create poster to display analogy between strategy and standard.

3. Objective
By the end of the Cluster Meeting, teachers will understand how to implement SURE strategy in order to help student comprehend text. Teachers will apply knowledge of SURE strategy to draw conclusion that are supported through extended writing within informational text. (Connection to TAP rubric- Student Work- Draw conclusions, make generalizations, and produce arguments that are supported through extended writing.)
Create Analogy- Sculptor of Statue of Liberty envisioned as a symbol of liberty spreading outward from America…
And the sculptor who created the enormous statue, Fredric-Auguste Bartholdi, did not connect the statue with immigration. He envisioned it as a symbol of liberty spreading outward from America.

4. Confident when comprehending text
S.U.R.E Strategy
Confident when comprehending text

5. S.U.R.E State part of the question in your response.
Create foldable with fill in the blank.

6. Use examples from text to support my answer
S.U.R.E
Use examples from text to support my answer

7. S.U.R.E

8. S.U.R.E
Refer back to the text for examples that support your personal responses.
experience- Give the reasons why…Why did the main character…What did they mean by…What do you think will happen…How would you describe the character…

9. S.U.R.E
experience- Give the reasons why…Why did the main character…What did they mean by…What do you think will happen…How would you describe the character…

10. S.U.R.E
Every part of your question was answered

11. Are you ready to be Sure? S.U.R.E
Let me show you how to be double sure

12. S.U.R.E Way to Go! You have now learned
how to use the SURE strategy to
completely answer questions!
Let’s try using the strategy with a partner!
Pass out leveled passages.

13. S.U.R.E
Partner Practice
Challenge- Create your own comprehension question for your partner.
Be sure to use the SURE strategy for confident responses that insure understanding of text.
Leveled Passage- create question that support learning.

14. S.U.R.E
Partner Check Correct Answer with Evidence from text to support answer S.U.R.E
Read Online Learning up to Paragraph 4 (for the sake of time).

15. S.U.R.E
Application What other subject areas would benefit from using the S.U.R.E strategy?
Be sure to integrate with other subject areas. Today, you were able to apply your understanding of SURE strategy to AzMerit practice questions as well as informational text.

16. S.U.R.E
Ticket Out the Door
Thinking Routine- Project Zero Harvard