Read & Analyze Sources
Read & Analyze Sources
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The third part of the Read.Inquire.Write. process is longer and has two class periods dedicated to it. It begins with teaching the students how to use the "Bookmark Tool" to investigate texts and to weigh evidence and ends with them making use of that tool as they explore the texts that you reviewed in the "Getting Started" section of this workshop. (When referencing the RIW cycle, this section addresses both "Read & Analyze Sources" and "Weigh & Corroborate Evidence." Both skills use the "Bookmark Tool.")
Note that printing the Bookmark Tool on cardstock and laminating it would be a wonderful resource for the students.
Read through the task and then explore the items listed below.
Slides -- slides 24-67
Teacher Guide -- pages 19-36
Student Guide -- page 4-20
(For more on the Bookmark Tool, check here)
Social Studies Practices -- pages 100-101 (Grade 8 Practices)
Task
Task
Create a document in your personal folder and title it Section 5: Read & Analyze Text - [your last name, your district].
(Example: Section 5: Read & Analyze Text - Cornue, MO BOCES)In the document you created, reflect on the following:
What are your thoughts on the Bookmark Tool? Do you like it as it stands, or would you make changes? Why is it structured the way that it is? What benefits will learning the process that it introduces have for your students in the future?
What do you like about the structure RIW uses? What would you change, if anything?
What are your thoughts on the breadth of texts offered? Do you have concerns about students being able to analyze the texts? If so, what are they and how would you address those concerns? How might any additional scaffolding that you incorporate impact the timeframe?
The fourth part of the Bookmark Tool holds "Reasoning Questions," which is the "Weigh & Corroborate Evidence" part of the RIW cycle. How do these questions help guide student thinking? What skills do they enhance?
How does this activity connect to the Social Studies Practices?
Remember: Answer some of the questions or all of them. Add thoughts of your own.
Think of these tasks as a running professional journal.
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