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Tackling the Trash

Expeditionary Learning Lesson Component	AIR Additional Supports	AIR New Activities
Opening
Engaging the reader	Have a few student pairs model Back-to-Back, Face-to-Face; carry out the activity in front of the class one pair at a time and have a bilingual student translate the English for Spanish speakers and Spanish for English speakers.	Bilingual homework
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.