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Why critical reading matters:
Why critical reading matters:
This video breaks down the skills within the ELA 1 competency so that you can understand how to rate appropriately in each one and why each skill is important to your long-term success.
ELA 1 (Video).mp4Resources for ELA 1.1
Resources for ELA 1.1
Choose and apply reading strategies (see resources below):
Comment on your overall reaction to the source and what reading strategies helped you make meaning of it.
1. Activating: Students use their past experiences and/or knowledge to better understand the text. (Example: text connections.)
2. Summarizing: Students restate the purpose and meaning of a text in their own words. (Example: magnet summaries.)
3. Monitoring and Clarifying: Students determine if they understand the text. If there are misunderstandings, they clarify and correct the confusion during and after reading a text. (Example: text coding.)
4. Visualizing and Organizing: Students create mental images of the text. Graphic organizers help to provide structure and allow students to generate ideas from the text. (Example: graphic organizer.)
5. Searching and Selecting: Students gather information from various resources to select that which allows them to define key words, answer questions, or solve problems. (Example: claim, evidence, and reasoning.)
6. Questioning: Students create questions about the text, ask themselves questions while reading the text, and answer different levels of questions about the text from their peers and/or teacher. (Example: question-answer relationship.)
7. Inferring: Students interpret the text and draw logical conclusions. (Example: say-mean-matter.)
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How to Improve your Reading Comprehension
How to Improve your Reading Comprehension
Warning: this video is a little long, and a tad bit dry, but it gives some really good advice on how to remember more information when you read and make the process less painful.
Resources for ELA 1.2
Resources for ELA 1.2
Evaluate the main ideas or themes (Questions 1 & 2, below):
Identify and discuss the key concepts and ideas expressed in the passage.
Connect what you're learning to what you already know.
Resources for ELA 1.4
Resources for ELA 1.4
Analyze craft (Questions 3 &4, below):
Identify whether the vocabulary the author uses and the way they organize their ideas helps them achieve their purpose (entertain, inform, or persuade).
Evaluate the most impactful techniques (e.g., literary devices) used by the author to focus my attention, influence the way I think or feel, and advance a certain point of view.
Choose ONE of the three options, below to demonstrate your reading. FYI: the Google Form is the easiest!
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