Informational Text (The Great Aviation Communicator) Reteach

The Great Aviation Communicator
Understanding/analyzing a variety of texts from various genres

By Shelby Hollen

What is the question asking about?

What is the response we need to support?

Applying the standard

Which sentence shows that Chanute was more interested in developing a flying machine than in gaining fame for himself?

Question Breakdown

Question 1- Use text evidence to support an appropriate response

Multiple Choice

Which sentence shows that Chanute was more interested in developing a flying machine than in gaining fame for himself?

• Alan B. Shepard, the first American in space, called Octave Chanute a remarkable man of vision. (paragraph 3)

• He collected and studied materials on heavier-than-air flight. (paragraph 5)

• He gave speeches, kept a diary, and carefully recorded the results of his own experiments. (paragraph 12)

• But Chanute felt the conquest of flight was a tremendous task that required teamwork. (paragraph 13)

What paragraph is the question trying to highlight?

What information is in that paragraph that is so important?

​Applying the standard

What is the best paraphrase of paragraph 7?

Question Breakdown

Question 3- Paraphrase and summarize texts in ways that maintain meaning and order

Multiple Choice

What is the best paraphrase of paragraph 7?

• By the late 1800s, model air planes were used by gliding expert Otto Lilienthal to learn about flight. He wondered if it would be better to use gliders that were bigger. This idea led him to experiment with full-scale gliders and eventually led to the success of aviation.

• By the late 1800s, Otto Lilienthal realized that it would be better to use full-scale gliders rather than model airplanes to learn about flight. Chanute agreed with Lilienthal, and Chanute spent several years working on glider designs near Lake Michigan.

• By the late 1800s, gliders that could carry passengers were being used by aviators such as Otto Lilienthal and Chanute to test the properties of flight. These aviators had realized that using smaller planes was unwise.

• By the late 1800s, most attempts at flight relied on the use of model airplanes. However, aviation expert Otto Lilienthal was convinced that success in flight required practicing with full-size gliders that could carry a passenger.

What is the question asking us to create a new understanding about?

Applying the standard

Based on information throughout the selection, what can the reader conclude about the field of aviation?

Question Breakdown

Question 5- Synthesize information to create a new understanding

Multiple Choice

Based on information throughout the selection, what can the reader conclude about the field of aviation?

• The field of aviation was limited to engineers during Chanute’s lifetime.

• The field of aviation was appealing to many because of the chance for profit.

• The field of aviation was in its very early stages during Chanute’s lifetime.

• The field of aviation was more popular in the United States than in other countries.

What does it mean to infer?

What paragraph do we have to make this inference about?

Can you support it with evidence?

Applying the standard

What can the reader infer about Chanute based on paragraph 11?

Question Breakdown

Question 6- Make inferences and use evidence to support understanding

Multiple Choice

What can the reader infer about Chanute based on paragraph 11?

• Chanute understood that the field of aviation needed to make faster progress.

• Chanute was truly committed to supporting the work of other aviators.

• Chanute realized the Wright brothers had made more progress in the field of aviation than he had.

• Chanute thought the Wright brothers were more deserving of support than other aviators.

Does the question give us the supporting evidence?

What is the controlling idea in the 1st paragraph?

Applying the standard

How does the information in paragraph 1 contribute to the controlling idea that successes in aviation were the result of a collaborative effort?

Question Breakdown

Question 7- The controlling Idea or thesis with supporting evidence

Multiple Choice

How does the information in paragraph 1 contribute to the controlling idea that successes in aviation were the result of a collaborative effort?

• By establishing the importance of learning more about the history of aviation from people and events of the past.

• By suggesting that the Wright brothers were not only contributors to advancements in aviation.

• By conveying the significance of the Wright brothers in adding power and control to flight experiments.

• By highlighting that both successes and failures were important to the study of aviation.

​Look at this photograph from the selection.

Question Breakdown

What is the photograph of?

Why would the author want to put this specific picture in the text?

What is the author trying to show you with the picture?

Question 8- Analyze the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes

What is the most likely reason the photograph is included in the selection?

Applying the Standard

Multiple Choice

What is the most likely reason the photograph is included in the selection?

• To highlight the Chanute’s glider as designed to carry a passenger

• To demonstrate that Chanute’s glider tests took place during varying weather conditions

• To show that Chanute made hundreds of glider test flights in a two-year time span

• To suggest that Chanute took advice from his assistants when designing his glider