Students worked on three different strategies/skills today: making predictions, summarizing main ideas, and supporting an opinion with text evidence.
We began with a partnered sort and predict activity, where pairs took words from a magazine article and sorted them into categories that made sense to the pair. We discussed the "labels" we would give the categories, and why we thought the words fit those categories. Then, pairs made predictions about what they thought the article might be about. Students did an impressive job of using the words from the sorting activity to come up with logical predictions.
As it turned out, the article was about plastic surgery and teens. We used a magnet word strategy to pull out the main ideas from each paragraph. We talked about which information was general and which was specific, and we agreed that general information does a better job of summarizing big ideas. We wrote a short phrase to represent the main point of each paragraph.
Then, students were asked to consider this question: Is plastic surgery for teens a good idea? They were asked to fill out a "Seeing Both Sides" graphic organizer, which asks them to consider both sides of the issue. Students practiced finding evidence in the article to support each side of the argument.
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