You are teaching sixth grade students, and you are preparing a lesson about reading informational text. Personalize the guidelines for helping students understand and remember. Tell what you will do beginning with your plan for gaining their attention. Continue with your plan for maintaining their attention, helping them connect new and previously learning, and focus on meaning
What will be an ideal response?
Suggested Response: The following plan describes one approach.
Gain students' attention having everyone hold up an informational text.
Present the objective of the lesson by asking a student to read it from the board.
Ask a question that helps students think about facts they already know about informational text. Call on different students to keep everyone's attention.
Introduce the main point of the lesson and ask students to do something with it, such as, using the table of contents to find something.
Let students get into pairs and practice using the feature of informational text that we discussed.
Get students to help summarize the lesson in their own words.
Revisit the objective and ask students to tell a partner how we met the objective today.
Text Reference: Teaching for Deep, Long-Lasting Knowledge: Basic Principles and Applications
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