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Current Events: Identifying and
Organizing Information
Unit
Overview
CURRENT EVENTS: IDENTIFYING AND
ORGANIZING INFORMATION
| 7th grade |
| 7 lessons |
| This unit focuses on identifying and organizing
information using a newspaper/magazine article, editorial, or a
news program. |
| During reading, students develop and apply reading
strategies to self-question and correct, infer, visualize, and
predict and check. In addition, notes are taken to identify and
explain media techniques used to convey messages in various
media. |
| This unit consists of seven
lessons. As part of the unit, the summative assessment
contains a section on constructed response items and a summary
writing prompt to help students prepare for MAP and other
standardized assessments. |
| Handouts including graphic
organizers |
| Formative and
Summative
Assessment |
| Glossary
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Unit
Plan: Lessons
This unit takes approximately nine
50-minute class periods, but may be adjusted as needed.
| Decoding Strategies |
Word |
HTML (with links to
documents) |
| During Reading Strategies:
Prediction, Self-Question, and Correct |
Word |
HTML (with links to
documents) |
| During Reading Strategies: Visualization |
Word |
HTML (with links to
documents) |
| During Reading Strategies:
Inferring |
Word |
HTML (with links to
documents) |
| Note-Taking and Organizational Strategies |
Word |
HTML (with links to
documents) |
| Summarizing |
Word |
HTML (with links to
documents) |
| Techniques Used to Convey Messages in Media |
Word |
HTML (with links to
documents) |
Essential
Questions:
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What are sources of current
events? |
| Why is it important to record and
organize relevant information from a nonfiction source? |
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How is an appropriate note taking
method or organizational strategy when recording information from a
newspaper/magazine article, editorial or news program?
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| What kind of information is stated
in a multi-paragraph summary? |
| What are reading strategies and
why is it important to practice these strategies in 7th grade? |
| What are media techniques? |
| How are media techniques used to
convey messages in various media? |
Summative Assessment and
Scoring Guides:
GRADE-LEVEL EXPECTATION CONTINUUM
TARGETED LEARNING
represents the specific Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs) that are taught and
assessed in this unit. Student mastery of these skills is expected at this
grade level. PREVIOUS LEARNING indicates student’s probable beginning
skill level. FUTURE LEARNING provides the “next step” for instruction or
student application of communication arts skills and concepts. Bolded terms are
glossary items.
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PREVIOUS LEARNING |
TARGETED LEARNING |
FUTURE LEARNING |
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Apply decoding
strategies to problem-solve unknown words and develop vocabulary
through text using roots and affixes, context clues, and a glossary,
dictionary, and thesaurus when reading.
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Apply decoding
strategies to problem-solve unknown words in order to read 8th
grade text.
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When reading 6th
grade material, students must be able to apply strategies to
self-question and correct, infer, and visualize; predict and check
using cueing systems such as meaning, structure, and visual. |
R1G During reading, develop and
apply strategies to self-question and correct, infer, visualize,
predict and check. |
Apply
strategies in order to develop vocabulary through text using roots
and affixes, context clues, a glossary, dictionary and thesaurus in
order to read and comprehend 8th grade text; predict and
check using cueing systems such as meaning, structure, and visual in
order to read 8th grade text.
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Use a
note-taking systems to organize information from oral presentations
and written text, and record relevant information using a variety of
note-taking and organizational formats.
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W3B Record and organize relevant
information using an appropriate note-taking method and
organizational strategy.
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Select and use
an appropriate method for note-taking at the 8th grade
level.
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Write summaries
of text from magazines, newspapers, and/or informational articles. |
W3D Write a multi-paragraph
summary of a newspaper/magazine article, editorial or news program
that includes supporting evidence from source. |
Write a
multi-paragraph summary including supporting evidence from one
source in order to summarize tow or more articles and write a brief
informational paper integrating supporting information from both
sources in 8th grade. |
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Identify and
explain viewpoints conveyed in various media (e.g., videos,
pictures, websites, artwork, plays and/or news programs) |
IL2 Identify and explain
techniques used to convey messages in various media. |
Identify and
explain techniques used to convey messages in various media in order
to analyze and synthesize two or more messages conveyed in various
media in 8th grade. |
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