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Continued Close Reading of Rain School: Text-Dependent Questions and Vocabulary Lesson PlanContinued Close Reading of Rain School: Text-Dependent Questions and Vocabulary Lesson Plan
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Continued Close Reading of Rain School: Text-Dependent Questions and Vocabulary

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The engaging story Rain School is further explored in the third lesson of a larger unit that explicitly teaches close reading skills by answering questions whose answers can only be found inside the text. Through teacher modeling and guided instruction, third graders use sticky notes to cite evidence from the text and record important details to use later on their worksheets. The lesson plan has great detailed information about how to effectively model citing evidence, as well as how to develop vocabulary with the class. Learners play a fun and fast-paced learning game, quiz-quiz-trade, with their vocabulary words before they debrief as a whole class. This lesson is complete with great resources and is implementation-ready. 

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close reading, reading comprehension, supporting details, context clues

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english language arts
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Grade
3rd
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
1 hr
Instructional Strategies
Collaborative Learning
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Year
2013
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Creative Commons
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Common Core

RL.3.1 SL.3.1.a L.3.4.a

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