Let’s dig right in and give examples, then explain. Close Reading needs to be your BESTIE! Include questioning techniques, vocabulary stops, and text comparisons all throughout your taught text. For the first time you teach a text and having to create your own CLOSE READING guide, add two-three good DOK 2 and 3 questions. ThenContinue reading “How to organize lesson plans to include DOK 2 and 3?”
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Literature spotlight – “The Pearl” for Upper Elementary and Middle School
Essential Questions are essential. Educational research in recent years has termed the start of a themed/paired-text unit with the beginning introduction having a broad set of questions that are ESSENTIAL to making connections, analyzing texts and terms, etc. Many teachers have done it for years and called it this and that, but the point is–takeContinue reading “Literature spotlight – “The Pearl” for Upper Elementary and Middle School”
ELA On The Move 