ELA

Lessons You May Have Missed

Reading

Week of May 10th

Writing

Raising the Level of Annotating Texts

Reading to Tackle More Difficult Texts

Who Said What?

Choosing a topic

Research and Generating Reasons

Rehearsal and Drafting

Writing a Lead/Introduction

Adding Examples to your Reasons

Adding Citations

Reading

Week of May 3rd

Writing

Strengthening Club Work

Readers Think and Wonder as they Read

Summarizing to Hold on to What is Most Essential

Arguing to Learn

Moving Beyond Considering One Debatable Question

Editing

Peer Editing

Publishing

Publishing to FlipGrid

Reading

Week of April 26th

Writing

Argument Intensive

Organizing an ethical research life to investigate an issue

Word Choice

Letting non-fiction reading on issues spur flash-debates

Mining texts for relevant information

Support your reasons with examples

Topic and Concluding Sentences

Transition words

Conclusion

Reading

Week of April 19th

Writing

Positive impacts of media

Negative impacts of media

Consider your audience

Consider opposing opinions

Reading

Week of April 12th

Writing

Statements in a Persuasive Text

Different Techniques used in Media

Media and its Components

Structure of a webpage

Graphic features of a webpage