Standard 2: Reading and Writing Process

Students will use a variety of recursive reading and writing processes.

READING: Students will read and comprehend increasingly complex literary and informational texts.

Understanding 

Objectives 

Approaching 

6.2.R.1

Students can organize main idea(s) and relevant supporting details to create an objective summary that maintains the sequence of events from a text.

6.2.R.1

Students will create an objective summary, including the main idea and supporting details while maintaining meaning and a logical sequence of events.

Developing 

6.2.R.1

Students can identify main ideas and some relevant details to begin to synthesize a summary with guidance. Students can logically place details in sequence.

6.2.R.1

Students can identify main ideas and some details to begin summarizing with guidance. Students can logically place details in sequence with guidance.

6.2.R.2

Students can list details that distinguish genre.

6.2.R.2

Students can identify the genre of a single text using genre characteristics.

6.2.R.2

Students can analyze textual characteristics to distinguish genres.

6.2.R.2

Students will analyze details in literary and nonfiction/informational texts to distinguish genres.

6.2.R.3

Students can identify main ideas and some details to paraphrase with guidance.

6.2.R.3

Students can identify main ideas and some relevant details to paraphrase with guidance. 

6.2.R.3

Students can retell the main idea(s) and relevant supporting details using their own words to paraphrase a text.

6.2.R.3

Students will paraphrase main ideas with supporting details in a text.

 Instructional Guidance 

• Have students partner up and provide each pair with the same short paragraph.  Both students read the paragraph.  Partner A will then paraphrase what was just read (without looking at the card).  Partner B can look at the card.  When Partner A has finished, Partner B can add suggest missing information.  Students then switch roles and paragraphs.

• Use a concept map to help students pull out important information to help with summarizing.

• Use a story map to help students with sequencing.

• Paired Reading - Similar to the Developing activity.  This time students read from their textbooks or other nonfiction articles.  After discussing, students could write down their paraphrase into Cornell notes.

• Use a framing graphic to help students organize the important information to help with summarizing.

• Use this Genre Study lesson to help students learn the characteristics of different genre.

   

• Students independently read a short section of text and, thinking about how they would verbally paraphrase to a partner, write their paraphrased information into Cornell Notes.

• Summarize using Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then

Deeper

Acquisition 

• Students turn short stories into informational articles and informational articles into short stories in the lesson Imagine That! Playing with Genre through Newspapers and Short Stories