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Unpacking learning targets
Define the terms main ideas and details and have students work with a partner to practice finding the main idea and details from text that they read in a previous lesson.
Work Time
Determining the main idea
Preview the text (AIR new activity 1 for Determining the Main Idea); enhance background knowledge (AIR new activity 2 for Determining the Main Idea); develop vocabulary (AIR new activity 3 for Determining the Main Idea); teach a minilesson on context clues (AIR new activity 4 for Determining the Main Idea); and engage in scaffolded close reading (AIR new activity 5 for Determining the Main Idea).
Answering questions about “Tackling the Trash”
Supply student charts and glossary.
Finding key details and revising the main idea statement
Provide ELLs with a graphic organizer and direct them back to the student charts associated with new activity 5 for Determining the Main Idea to pull information into this graphic organizer.
Closing and Assessment
Sharing Ways to Be Well Aware
Model or have a student model an example for each category in the Being Well Aware anchor chart.
Homework
Encourage home language use, support selecting books at independent reading levels, and preview independent reading form.
Text
Tackling the Trash
Because of the length, the text students are reading is integrated throughout this lesson rather than
American Institutes for Research Scaffolding Instruction for ELLs: Resource Guide for ELA–44