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Finding Relevant Information and Asking Research Questions: The Big Thirst

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This Finding Relevant Information and Asking Research Questions: The Big Thirst lesson plan also includes:

Full Grade 7 ELA Module 4B (.pdf)
Grade 7 ELA Module 4B Updates: June 2015 (.pdf)
Full Grade 7 ELA Module 4B, Unit 2 (.pdf)
Grade 7 ELA Module 4B, Unit 2, Lesson 3 (.html)
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Let's get to the gist. As scholars continue their study of Charles Fishman's The Big Thirst, they practice writing the gist of the text. Additionally, pupils add notes about the industrial uses of water to their researcher's notebooks.

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Concepts

evidence, supporting evidence, textual evidence, informational texts

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

Support English learners by providing cognates for some of the lesson vocabulary, such as consequences/consecuencias

Classroom Considerations

Installment three of 17 consecutive lessons from the Grade 7 ELA Module 4B, Unit 2 series
Requires dictionaries and one pack of sticky notes per student

Pros

Offers strategies for lesson differentiation
Provides comprehensive teaching notes

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None

Common Core

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