Non-Fiction

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Non-Fiction

• Laws/Wheatley

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Entrance Ticket

• Individually, complete the Entrance Ticket and be
  prepared to discuss

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Essential Questionhow can I get better at
answering DCAS-type questions?

• Key Learning
• Informational texts provide students with a way
  to learn
• About the world around them.

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soapstone

• S What is the Subject?
• O What is the Occasion?
• A Who is the best receiving Audience?
• P What is the Purpose of this piece?
• S Who is the Speaker?
• T What is the Tone?
• O How is the piece Organized?
• N What is the Narrators style?
• E Evidence of the above?

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Your turn.

• Choose a partner (one that works)
• Read the short article/text and answer the
  questions using the SOAPSTONE strategy.

• Are you reading and not scanning?
• Do not try to look for the answers first!

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how can skilled readers understand the main idea
provided in informational texts?

• Answer the Essential Question
• In your notes

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And then there was more practice

• 2nd Article with SOAPSTONE
• Re-visit EQ
• Summarization / EXIT Ticket

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