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Introduction to the workshop
Let’s get started! – Handout
Now it’s Your Turn – Articles 1 & 2
Now it’s Your Turn – Video
Now it’s Your Turn – Evaluating Questions
Now it’s Your Turn – Utilizing Achieve the Core
Now it’s Your Turn – Academic Vocabulary
Now it’s Your Turn – Essay
Informational Text/Nonfiction— p 7
Access resources to support a multi-text curriculum— p 8
Take steps to achieve the skill— p 9
Recognize questions in a variety of formats— p 11-12
Take steps to achieve the skill— p 13-14
Decode vocabulary within questions & prompts— p 15-18
Identify the best answers— p 19-22
Make inferences about complex texts— p 23-24
Make inferences: Step 4— p 25-26
Discern evidence versus details— p 27-30
Explain evidence thoroughly— p 31
Write the 1st sentence of the Yes, MA’AM response— p 32
Write the 2nd and 3rd sentences of the Yes, MA’AM response— p 33
Write the 4th sentence of the Yes, MA’AM response— p 34
Take steps to achieve the skill— p 35-38
Define Main. Define Idea.— p 39-40
Main-Idea Chapter Titles— p 41-42
Now it’s Your Turn: Panda— p 43
Now it’s Your Turn: Hot Dog— p 44
Students infer multiple main ideas
Introduce universal themes— p 45
10 Topical Themes— p 46-47
Recognize new information within text features— p 49
Assess the new information learned from a text feature— p 49-50
Move beyond comparing to evaluating— p 49
Distinguish the subtle, but significant differences— p 51-52
Realize that informational text isn’t necessarily “true”— p 53-54
Prepare for comparative thinking— p 55-57
Compare information presented in nonfiction texts— p 58-59
Communicate the comparisons in a written response— p 58
Compare fiction to fact— p 60-62
Study the evolution of writing tasks— p 63-64
Respond to a narrative-writing task— p 65-72
Respond to a literary-analysis task— p 73-74
Provide short and simulated research opportunities— p 75
Review Strategy #5, #7— p 75
Decode the prompt and organize— p 76-80
Synthesize information— p 81-82
Synthesize multiple reasons— p 83-87
