Central Focus Essential Literacy Strategies

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1. Central Focus
a. Describe the central focus and the essential literacy strategy for comprehending OR composing text you will teach in the learning segment.
[The central focus of this learning segment is to develop reading comprehension strategies by summarizing an informational text. The central focus will be taught through the essential literacy strategy of determining the main ideas and supporting details. The purpose of this learning segment is for students to analyze or break down an informational text into smaller sections to comprehend what they are reading and to organize their thoughts, in order to summarize. Throughout these lessons, I will model and guide students on how to determine main ideas and key details. At the end of the learning segment, they will be able to summarize an informational text using main ideas and key details to understand the text.]
b. Given the central focus, describe how the standards and learning objectives within your learning segment address
ϒ the essential literacy strategy
ϒ related skills that support use of the strategy
ϒ reading/writing connections …show more content…

The central focus of this learning segment is summarizing an informational text. The essential literacy strategy students will be learning and utilizing with the central focus is determining the main ideas and supporting details of an informational text. This strategy is aligned throughout the learning segment with the standard CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.2: Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text. To effectively summarize, students must first analyze an informational text to determine the main ideas of the informational text and then determine the key details that support the main

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