Planning a Draft
Students will employ critical thinking skills to order details logically and become more effective at communicating their ideas to readers. The lesson will guide students toward using critical thinking in the planning phase of drafting to purposefully include details that interest readers.
Pack Your Bags!
Students learn to determine the difference between topic, central idea, and details using mystery bags, graphic organizers, and short passages.
Inferring: It’s a Beast!
Using a digital forum, seventh-grade students will collaboratively generate authentic inferences about character motivation. Students will utilize textual evidence and draw from personal schema in order to make logical connections across multiple genres.
Adventures in Inferring
Students will infer the message the author is trying to convey using schema and evidence from the text. Readers use this strategy, known as making inferences, to think about what they are reading.
Students progress from a surface-level understanding of text to a deeper understanding by processing and expressing details and examples to support their understanding of observations through background knowledge and textual evidence.
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Remembering Leaders
Students will read expository text, categorize findings, and reformulate the text into an obituary.
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Author’s Purpose in a Bag
Students will infer from text evidence the author’s purpose and explain their thinking.
Are You Speaking Greek?
Students will be able to determine the meaning of words using Greek, Latin, or other linguistic roots and affixes.
Text Feature Fun!
Students will locate and identify text features in non-fiction books while matching the purpose to the appropriate text feature.
The Golden Touch
Students will practice using a protocol to create a summary of an expository text.
Can You Summarize?
Students will work with partners, as well as independently, to create and evaluate summaries of expository text.
Introduction to Section 11
This resources introduces the 16 lessons in Section 11 of the Career and Technical Education Work-Based Learning course. Each lesson in this section describes one of the federally recognized career clusters.
Lesson 11.1: Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources
This resource describes the scope of the Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources (AFNR) Career Cluster in terms of career pathways, practicum courses, work-based learning (WBL) experiences, prerequisites, safety and occupational training, and curriculum resources.
Introduction to Section 12
Introduction to Section 12
Lesson 12.1: College and Career Readiness
This resource describes various aspects of career and college readiness, starting with the definitions and standards and then covering career preparation and practicum teachers are in an excellent position to help students develop their career goals.
Lesson 12.2: Post-Secondary Opportunities
This resource introduces the most common post-secondary opportunities, and explores the role of the work-based learning (WBL) instructor in assisting students in evaluating their options and planning their next steps after high school.
Lesson 12.3: WBL Activities for Students
This resource describes six recommended activities that work-based learning (WBL) teachers can incorporate into classroom lessons to help students prepare for life beyond high school.
Lesson 11.2: Architecture and Construction
This resource describes the scope of the Architecture and Construction Career Cluster in terms of career pathways, practicum courses, work-based learning (WBL) experiences, prerequisites, safety and occupational training, and curriculum resources.
Lesson 11.3: Arts, A/V Technology and Communications
This resource describes the scope of the Arts, A/V Technology and Communications Career Cluster in terms of career pathways, practicum courses, work-based learning (WBL) experiences, prerequisites, safety and occupational training, and curriculum resources.
Lesson 11.4: Business Management and Administration
This resource describes the scope of the Business Management and Administration Career Cluster in terms of career pathways, practicum courses, work-based learning (WBL) experiences, prerequisites, safety and occupational training, and curriculum resources.
Lesson 11.5: Education and Training
This resource describes the scope of the Education and Training Career Cluster in terms of career pathways, practicum courses, work-based learning (WBL) experiences, prerequisites, safety and occupational training, and curriculum resources.