Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Standard
ELA7RC1 The student reads a minimum of 25 grade-level appropriate books or book equivalents (approximately 1,000,000 words) per year from a variety of subject disciplines. The student reads both informational and fictional texts in a variety of genres and modes of discourse, including technical texts related to various subject areas.
ELA7R1.2e Identify evidence to support argument in informational text
Mark reading passages to identify information useful for making inferences
Combine text information and background knowledge to make inferences
Use inferences from the reading passage to support predictions
Warm Up
Using Ladders to Success students will work with Making Inferences on pg. 84.
Homework
- Read a challenging biography/autobiography book for 30 minutes. The biography/autobiography book must be read by 1/30.
- Have the book chat Newsletter for Biography signed
Activities
- Students will complete a prediction handout on what they think they will learn in their biography/autobiography book. This will be collected for a classwork grade.
- Students will go over the book chat Newsletter for Biography.
