Designing Supplemental Focus Lessons

Session 4

October 2014 NTI

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Welcome

• Share name, role and biggest learning from yesterday, as well as “hope for” from this session

Learning Targets

• I can analyze a supplemental text for its alignment to a specific standard.

• I can design text-dependent questions that address a specific standard.

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Qualitative Aspects of Text Complexity

• Locate in your participant notebook on page xx , Qualitative Aspects of Text Complexity.

• Preview the 4 quadrants of this document.

• Look specifically at the “structure” portion of this document make to prepare to look at texts

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Scan, pass and select a text

• Divide into split table groups

• Locate the texts on your table.

• Scan and pass the different readings.

• Look at each text and think particularly about structure as that is the focus of standard 5.

• What text will best teach standard 5?

• Each individual select a text that will best teach the standard

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Agree and Analyze

• Discuss your text selections as a group. Each individual share what they selected and why. (5 minutes)

• Come to consensus: Agree on a text together to analyze against the 4 quadrants document paying particular attention to the structure quadrant. (10 minutes)

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Locate

• Locate the Lesson Planning Template on page xx and the Creating Text Dependent Questions on page xx in your participant notebook.

• You will use both these documents in your lesson planning.

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Groups

• Create split table groups for this activity.

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Your Focus Standard

• Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections contribute to the whole and to the development of the ideas.

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Read

• Read the document Creating Text Dependent Questions on page xx to solidify common group understanding of the writing of questions.

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Lesson Planning Template

• Use the Lesson Planning Template to guide your creation of the lesson

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Share

• Share your lesson design with the other group at your table

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Think and Talk

• How can you use the tools and resources from this session in your school or district?

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Turn and Talk

• Turn and talk to a partner: What was your “hope for” for this session? Is there more learning that you need to do to ensure that your “hope for” is complete?

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