AVID and National Geographic are partnering for the 2022–2023 school year to develop critical reading lessons. This partnership will allow AVID to provide highly engaging and rigorous content through disciplinary literacy—an emphasis on the shared ways of reading, writing, speaking, and thinking within a particular content area or academic field.
In this critical reading lesson, students will examine the interactive text “Who Takes Care of Our Forests?,” which focuses on career and technical education, college and career readiness, social studies, and STEM, using an Isolating Key Information strategy to develop a One-Page Report. This lesson uses the WICOR® (Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization, Reading) methodology, as well as strategies from AVID’s curriculum library, and is designed for a variety of learning environments.
Learning Objectives
- Students will collaborate with peers to draw informed conclusions.
- Students will create new insights and share them visually on a document.
What You’ll Need
- National Geographic interactive content:
- AVID Elementary Weekly lesson
- Additional resources can be found on the AVID Elementary Weekly website by subscription only.
Activate
Establish a purpose for reading, build background knowledge, and set students up for success.
Plan for reading by thinking through or having students respond to the following questions and identify how the chosen text fits within the broader context of your instructional unit so that students are making connections to their prior knowledge:
- What technology skills and knowledge will students need to access the text and complete the academic task?
- What academic tasks are associated with reading the text?
This text meets the following features of an ideal text:
- This text builds reading stamina and provides the opportunity for students to reach higher and/or deeper.
- Engagement with this text fosters inquiry and curiosity.
Allow students an opportunity to set up their notes and record the Essential Question before engaging in the learning. Students will be using a Text-to-Self strategy in this lesson.
Engage
Build vocabulary and engage in purposeful rereads. Vocabulary development can happen at any point in the reading process.
Students will build vocabulary using Three-Column Notes for Vocabulary, looking at both academic and content-area words. They will process information in a first and second read of the text and engage in a purposeful reread using an Isolating Key Information strategy.
Extend
Reading tasks should be directly connected to what students will do with the text after they have read and understand it.
“Students will use the text to develop the Synthesize academic thinking skill. They will extend beyond the text by creating a One-Page Report.”
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