1. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time
Day Two:
Reading Comprehension Strategy: Check for Understanding

2. What class will look like today…
Mini-Lesson - notetaking
Learning Target
Quick Write
Retell
Reading Comprehension Strategy: Check For understanding

3. What are some ways we can…
Organize notes?
What is important to include when you take notes?
What does not need to be included when you take notes?

4. Writer’s Notebook In your writer’s notebook, answer the question:
“Can your best friend be more important than your family?”

5. Retell
Another important reading comprehension strategy….

6. Check For Understanding
Check for understanding is a reading comprehension strategy that teaches you to stop frequently and see if you are understanding what you are reading.
Stop and ask yourself 2 questions-”Who is the story about?” and “What happened?”
If you can easily answer the two questions, keep reading.
If you cannot, you must go back and re-read.

7. Model Check For Understanding
Read aloud of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part- Time Indian
We will stop at the end of each section/page and practice the strategy with you.

8. Exit slip – Revenge is My Middle Name
Describe Rowdy and Junior’s relationship (inferential).
Infering deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements.
Why does Rowdy do what he does to the Andruss brothers?

9. Exit slip
Describe Mr. P.
Why is Junior so cynical about white teachers?
What angers Junior about his geometry book?