Activity Description
Title: Non-Fiction - - Different Points of View for the Same Event
This ACTIVITY has a set of teaching-learning strategies proven to increase student mastery of this critical Informational standard - - different Points of View for the same event. By Grade 5, the “point of view” in a text relates to the perspective or viewpoint from which the author relates the message. Students examine two texts describing or explaining the same topic or event, noting (a) which details are similar and which are different; but also (b) how the interpretations of the same details are different - - and perhaps why. The analysis of non-fiction texts in terms of perspective, details, and interpretation is also a great foundation for writing and the basis for Quick-Writes. (W 5.1; 5.2; 5.4 and W 5.8 and W 5.9 - - research-writing ). [At Grades K-5, each Activity attaches student-sized texts, templates, and test items that teachers can quickly print and use immediately in class.]
Enabling Skills: (1) identify the perspective from which an event, person, or objects is viewed; (2) compare and contrast two different points of view about the same event.
Direct Instruction: Suggested teaching strategies are given that model for students what they need to do to begin their journey toward mastery. Two informational texts on the same topic - - reflecting different perspectives - - are provided for students to show the comparison. Students record their observations in a three-column graphic.
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. In this Activity, the Quick-Writes ask students to translate their notes comparing and contrasting the two perspectives into an essay that shows they can construct new meaning.
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.
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