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Articles of the Week
Rationale: test scores • “A student who reads 15 minutes a day will increase 2 points on an achievement test.”
• “You must ins<ll the love for reading by example and by seeing that your students read.”
• MNEA, Raising Test Scores, What Teachers Can Do
Rationale: building background
• “Part of the reason my students have such a hard 3me reading is because they bring li8le prior knowledge and background to the wri8en page…To help build my students’ prior knowledge, I assign them an “Ar3cle of the Week” every Monday morning. By the end of the school year I want them to have read 35-‐40 ar3cles about what is going on in the world…if my students are to become literate, they must broaden their reading experiences.”
• Kelly Gallagher
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• Will be assigned on Monday and will be due on Friday.
• Will always be CURRENT and about something going on in the world, but will not necessarily relate to the current topic we are discussing in class.
• Outside of a small discussion on Friday when they are turned in, we will not spend class 3me to read these ar3cles or complete this assignment.
3 Things
1. Show evidence of a close read-‐mark up the text with your ques3ons and comments.
2. Write a 1-‐page reflec3on on your own sheet of paper.
3. Write a “window quote” for the ar3cle.
Annotating
• Reac3ons • Connec3ons • Ques3ons • Comments • Notes for further research
Reflection
• Pick a line from the ar3cle and respond to it • Discuss how/if the author’s view on the topic relates to your own personal view
• Make predic3ons about the follow-‐up that may happen with this topic in the future
Window Quote
• Choose one quote from the ar3cle that “sums up” the essence of the author’s view
