ALEX Classroom Resources

ALEX Classroom Resources  
   View Standards     Standard(s): [ELA2021] (6) 11 :
11. Utilize written, visual, digital, and interactive texts to generate and answer literal, interpretive, and applied questions.
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11. Compare and contrast the effectiveness of techniques used in a variety of digital sources to generate and answer literal, interpretive, and applied questions and create new understandings.
Subject: English Language Arts (6 - 7)
Title: Three Level Comprehension Guide for Active Reading
URL: https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/file/Three%20Level%20Comprehension%20Guide%20for%20Active%20Reading.pdf
Description:

There are three levels of comprehension when engaging in active reading. Leveled reading is a way to comprehend, interpret, and apply difficult texts by working at the literal, interpretive, and applied levels. Leveled reading helps readers to go beyond the surface of a text in a structured, step-by-step way. 

This document will explain the three levels of comprehension: literal, interpretative, and application. In addition, it will describe tasks that students can complete to address each level of comprehension, and it includes sentence stems teachers can use to create questions to address each level.



   View Standards     Standard(s): [ELA2021] (6) -3 :
R4. Utilize a writing process to plan, draft, revise, edit, and publish writings in various genres.
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7. Produce clear, coherent narrative, argument, and informative/explanatory writing in which the development, organization, style, and tone are relevant to task, purpose, and audience, using an appropriate command of language.

a. Write narratives incorporating key literary elements, including characters, plot, setting, point of view, resolution of a conflict, dialogue, and sensory details.

b. Write informative or explanatory texts with an organized structure and a formal style, incorporating a focused point of view, a clear purpose, credible evidence, and technical word meanings.

c. Write an argument to convince the reader to take an action or adopt a position, stating a claim and supporting the claim with relevant, well-organized evidence from credible sources.
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11. Utilize written, visual, digital, and interactive texts to generate and answer literal, interpretive, and applied questions.
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13. Create and edit digital products that are appropriate in subject and purpose for a particular audience or occasion.

Examples: social media posts, blog posts, podcast episodes, infographics
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14. Enhance oral presentations by introducing ideas in digital formats with specific attention to subject, occasion, audience, and purpose.

Examples: speaking to defend or explain a digital poster, multimedia presentation, or video
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19. Demonstrate command of standard English grammar, usage, and mechanics when writing.

a. Use commas, parentheses, or dashes to set off nonrestrictive or parenthetical elements.

b. Revise writing for correct mechanics with a focus on commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, colons, and semicolons.

c. Compose and revise writing by using various pronouns and their antecedents correctly.

Examples: personal, intensive, reflexive, demonstrative, relative, interrogative, indefinite

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24. Write about research findings independently over short and/or extended periods of time.
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28. Discover word meanings through active listening in various contexts.

Examples: classroom discussion, oral presentations, digital formats
Subject: English Language Arts (6)
Title: Highlighting Out-of-School Language Expertise With Pop Culture Dictionaries
URL: http://readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/highlighting-school-language-expertise-31144.html
Description:

Validate students' out-of-school language use by asking them to share details on the use of words and phrases from movies, television shows, books, and other texts. In this activity, students compose dictionary entries for words and phrases from pop culture texts, connecting the definitions to their personal use of the terms. Their work is published individually, or if desired, collectively in a class dictionary.



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