High-Interest Non-Fiction Reading Comprehension with a Social Emotional Learning twist!
Making Connections Reading Strategy Lesson Plan: How to make deeper Text-to-Self, Text-to-Text, and Text-to-World connections
Making Connections is more than simply finding something that the text reminds you of.
Use this lesson to help your students develop deeper connections instead of thin connections like “this book has a dog and I have a dog…”
How to Make (Deeper) Connections – 4 PRO TIPS:
1. Connect with things you’ve read (text to text), things you’ve experienced (text to self), or things people know (text to world)
2. Avoid simple connections. Find things that are same-same but different.
3. Use one of these thought patterns: “This is like that, but… so…” or “A is like B, and B is _ so A is probably _”
4. Stop after every heading or paragraph and make a connection
Online Shopping and Fraud – Critical Thinking – Article 011
Reading comprehension article handout (differentiated Gr 5, 7, 9, 11) about COLLABORATION and how diverse leadership can help.
Annamie Paul was the first Black person to be the leader of a federal political party in Canada. She won the leadership race for the Green Party of Canada in October 2020.
The take-away message is that collaboration happens when you have a group of people working together towards a common goal or objective, and they create something new:
it could be a new solution to a problem, a new understanding of an issue, or a new plan to reach a goal.
Evaluating Reading Strategy Lesson Plan
Teach students CRITICAL THINKING strategies to help students EVALUATE ideas when reading.
Evaluating is more than just forming an opinion. It’s about making an informed opinion or decision.
Use this lesson to give students a process to help them think critically about the information they read.
4 PRO TIPS to use the Evaluating Reading Strategy:
1. Restate part of a sentence from the text as a question that includes… a modal verb (Should… Could … Would… …might…) or a value word (better/worst, more/less, etc…)
2. Clarify the criteria for evaluating. Define the underlying concept word. Make a checklist. Narrow down the list. Identify deal breakers.
3. Play with the words to find other ideas. Ask a similar question, opposite question, or simpler question.
4. Start with the other side. Try to be open-minded. How might the other side be correct?
What if I took it off for you? Reading Response Passage
This singer / songwriter wonders if she took it off for you, would people like her better?
What are we talking about?
Can your Middle School and High School students infer based on clues from the text?
Devious Sips, TikTok trends, and Active Citizenship
Reading comprehension article handout (differentiated Gr 5, 7, 9, 11) about COLLABORATION and how diverse leadership can help.
Annamie Paul was the first Black person to be the leader of a federal political party in Canada. She won the leadership race for the Green Party of Canada in October 2020.
The take-away message is that collaboration happens when you have a group of people working together towards a common goal or objective, and they create something new:
it could be a new solution to a problem, a new understanding of an issue, or a new plan to reach a goal.
Dwayne Johnson The Rock
He was supposed to be playing in the NFL.
So, why was his dad driving him back home? All he had was seven bucks in his pocket.
How does the Rock go from ZERO to HERO?
By working harder than everyone else in the room.