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interact relacionarse
People can _____________ in person or over a phone or computer.
AIR Instructions for Students
 Your teacher will pre-teach one vocabulary word for you.
 Listen as your teacher reads the text aloud.
 When you come to an underlined word in the text, look up its meaning in the glossary. When you
have time, draw a picture [EN] or write a phrase [EM, TR, EX] to remember the new word.
Word Card 2
Context: If someone is spending many hours a day interacting with others on Facebook, then he or she is missing out on an opportunity to build in-person skills.
Sentence frame: My favorite way to interact with friends is ____________________________.
Teacher says: Let’s talk about the word interact. Interact means respond to someone, as when you talk with someone. But you also can interact with someone with body language, or by phone or computer.
Interact in Spanish is relacionarse.
In the position paper, the author says that when teenagers interact over Facebook instead of in person, they miss out on building in-person interacting skills. In order for people to get good at interacting in person, they have to practice.
Look at the picture. A group of teenagers are interacting in person. They are talking and laughing with each other. Look at the other picture. Is the young man interacting with someone? Explain how you know.
Partner talk: What is your favorite way to interact with your friends?
Student Glossary
Word
Translation
Rewrite the Word
English Definition
Example From Text
Picture or Phrase
Is It a Cognate?
access
acceso
the ability or power to use something
Facebook is not a Web site for someone with limited access to his or her prefrontal cortex.
The older students have access to the computers at school.
yes
adolescent
adolescente
teenager
an adolescent brain has a developing prefrontal cortex
Engaging in Scaffolded Close Reading (AIR New Activity 5 for Examining a Model Position Paper) AIR Additional Supports
 Create guiding questions and supplementary questions for each section of text.
American Institutes for Research Scaffolding Instruction for ELLs: Resource Guide for ELA–83