Activity Description
Title: Fiction - - Explicit Detail and Retell w/Texts from Different Cultures
This ACTIVITY has a set of teaching-learning strategies proven to increase student mastery of these two critical Reading-Literary standards: (a) identifying explicit detail and (b) retell a text. Both are always included on high-stakes tests! Students learn to use a simple Template to identify literary elements - - including the theme, translate them into questions to ask each other, and create retells to document comprehension. The sample texts use passages from different cultures. [ At Grades K-3, each Activity attaches student-sized texts, templates, and test items that teachers can quickly print.]
Enabling Skills: identify the elements of a fiction text: topic, plot events, character(s), setting details, theme, and challenging vocabulary.
Direct Instruction: Suggested teaching strategies are given that model for students what they need to do to begin their journey toward mastery. These strategies include using a Template to record text details; practicing with sample texts; learning to write questions - - and formulate answers - - from the Template details. Students are given actual texts to practice, demonstrating they can construct meaning for themselves.
Quick-Writes: Standards-based writing prompts are provided that require students to document that they have internalized the core ideas of the standard(s) and can show independent mastery. These include “take-aways” from a text; advice they would offer to a character; and “what-if” scenarios.
High-Stakes Look-Alike Assessments: At Grades 3-8, the Activities include two tests - - one for practice - - followed by classroom analysis of errors made - - and the second test to determine mastery. The test items are constructed to look exactly like those items students will encounter on their High-Stakes Tests.
CUSTOMER: Thanks for considering this Activity as part of your approach to your state’s ELA standards. If you have any comments as to how it worked - - or didn’t! - - we’d welcome them! See the contact information to send us feedback. - - the EdFOCUS Team
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