Activity Description
Title: Non-Fiction - - Integrate Information from Multiple Texts
This ACTIVITY has a set of teaching-learning strategies proven to increase student mastery of an important standard - - integrating information from two texts on the same topic. Student text analysis reveals explicit detail and relationships among the details; the main idea(s) and how it (they) are developed; key vocabulary; the structure of the text; facts supplied by graphics; the author’s particular viewpoint - - if not neutral; and the evidence an author provides to support his or her message. The integration of the texts is also the basis for Quick-Writes. (W 5.1; 5.2; 5.3; 5.4) and for Research-Writing (W 5.7; W 5.8; W5.9). At the end of the activity, students take two tests - - both with items parallel to the OST Released Items. [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: For this Activity, students should bring the ability to identify and record key information provided by different texts, including the graphics and the author’s unique perspective or viewpoint. The format for recording this information may be notecards, notebook paper, or the lap-top.
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 examining multiple texts on the same topic to record the important information from each. Students are then asked to combine the details from the texts to show a more complete set of information - - first as a set of bullets and then as a draft. This skill is a definite precursor to combining sources for a research paper and collecting relevant information to answer a specific research question.
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, students are asked students to list pertinent information from multiple texts and then combine it into a written essay or report.
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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