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AIR Instructions for Students Support for Completing the Independent Reading Form Review the meanings of where, who, and what. Then talk about precise language. Before students work on their own, ask them to give examples from the Tacking the Trash reading of words that are precise and explain why. Have several students indicate a word whose meaning they were unsure about. Use the following questions to guide the discussion: Who remembers what it means if a word is precise? [ALL] If a word is precise, it means _______________________. [EN, EM, TR] Who can give an example of a word from “Tackling the Trash” that you feel is precise? [ALL] An example of a word from “Tackling the Trash” that I feel is precise is _______. [EN, EM] An example is __________________. [TR] Who can give another example? [ALL] An example of a word from “Tackling the Trash” that I feel is precise is _______. [EN, EM] An example is __________________. [TR] What is a word from “Tackling the Trash” that you were unsure of when you were reading? [ALL] A word I was unsure of is _________________________. [EN, EM, TR] What is another example? [ALL] Another example is _________________________. [EN, EM, TR]

Grade 5, Module 3A, Unit 1, Lesson 2: The Value of Sports in People’s Lives, Part 1

https://www.engageny.org/resource/grade-5-ela-module-3a-unit-1-lesson-2

Overview

In this brief unit, students build their background knowledge about the importance of sports within the American culture over time. They read two informational articles, “It’s Not Just a Game!” and “The Literature of Baseball: The Quintessential American Game.” Students also are reintroduced to reading and writing arguments (RI.5.8 and W.5.1). They begin to explore how to read opinion pieces. They are introduced to the term opinion and asked to identify and explain how authors use evidence to support their opinions. For the midunit assessment, students read and answer text-dependent questions about a new informational article, “Roots of American Sports,” which will further build students’ knowledge about the importance of sports in American society. For the end-of-unit, on-demand assessment, students will begin to practice citing evidence to support an opinion, specifically “Sports are an important part of American culture.” Then, they will identify supporting evidence for the opinion, organize their ideas, and write an opinion paragraph using the opinion and supporting details they identified. In the first lesson in this unit, students do a gallery walk to view images and read informational text to learn how athletes broke barriers, use quotes to make inferences about why sports are important in American culture, infer the meanings of new words in the quotes, revise their inferences, and debrief and review learning targets.
This is the second lesson in Unit 1. As noted in the introduction, AIR provides scaffolding differentiated for ELL students at the entering (EN), emerging (EM), transitioning (TR), and expanding (EX) levels of English language proficiency in this prototype. We indicate the level(s) for which the scaffolds are appropriate in brackets following the scaffold recommendations (e.g., “[EN]”). Where “[ALL]” is indicated, it means that the scaffold is intended for all levels of students. Scaffolds are gradually reduced as the student becomes more proficient in English.
The following table displays the Expeditionary Learning lesson components as well as the additional supports and new activities AIR has provided to scaffold instruction for ELLs.