Practicing foundation skills

Practicing foundation skills

ELA independent practice

RACE is a strategy we use to answer questions

• A strategy is a specific plan that helps get to the goal.

Multiple Choice

What is a strategy?

• A type of idea

• A specific plan to get to the goal

What is your strategy?

Your plan should be one that allows you to organize all your ideas and understand what you have written or read.

Multiple Choice

What is a strong strategy?

• Reading and underlining things that seem important

• Using RACE to help with writing strong answers

Multiple Choice

What are context clues?

• Clues that solve the mystery

• Clues inside a sentence to help understand difficult words or meanings

• Taking apart things

We use context clues to help us understand how to break down difficult words in a text.

Context means within (in this case we mean within or inside a sentence) and the clues are other words to help us understand those words.

The girl galloped away on her horse quickly.

In this sentence, "girl" and "galloped" are clues to help us understand what the word might mean.

Multiple Choice

The girl galloped away on her horse quickly.

What does gallop mean as used in the sentence?

• Sleep

• Ran

• Speed

The 7th grade student had a good deal of ambition, he wanted to go to college and become a doctor.

The words "a good deal" and "wanted" give clues to the meaning of ambition.

Multiple Choice

The 7th grade student had a good deal of ambition, he wanted to go to college and become a doctor.

What is the meaning of the word ambition as it is used in this sentence?

• To want to go to school

• The desire to work hard and achieve

• A lot of ideas

Understand what you read

It's important to do your best to understand what you read, in most cases all the information you need is usually right there in the text.

Open Ended

Why should we understand what we read?

Multiple Select

Which is a good way to introduce evidence found in the text?

• Something that works is...

• It's not possible but...

• According to the text...

Sentence starters

We use sentence starters when we are citing evidence from a text. We want to make sure we use words that are strong and relate back to ideas.

Poll

Which sentence starter do you prefer?

• According to the text..

• In the text it says/said...

• The author says/said...

• An example from the text is...

Multiple Choice

What does it mean to explain what you find?

• To understand why what you found matters

• To describe the evidence or points made

• To organize ideas made

• Re-arrange ideas

5 ways to explain

• Connect all ideas together

• Describe the idea in more detail

• Provide deeper analysis or discussion

• Provide a quote that relates to ideas

• Strong reasoning for ideas and why points were made

Open Ended

Why should you explain any evidence you find in the text?

Multiple Choice

Best reason to use RACE?

• It answers all parts of the question in complete sentences.

• It makes sense for reading.

• Organizes ideas logically.

• It helps with understanding what is being read and why.

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