Each teacher was asked to bring three papers to the discussion — one in the top of the class performance, one in the middle, and one in the bottom of the class performance. Papers were chosen before the team defined proficiency. After defining proficiency, teachers often changed their minds about how they ordered their papers. The online discussion will make that clearer.
Question: Read the selection “Adventure’s Call” and then answer the following question.
Write a summary of the section of the article under the subheading “Call of the Sea.” Use information from the article to support your answer.
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Top Classroom Response
What did the student understand?
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What does the student still need to learn?
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Where would you go next instructionally with this student?
- Help him to see that it would have been more effective to have ended the piece with next to last sentence which was: “When Jack decided to become a writer, he worked hard to increase his vocabulary and read even more books to get an understanding of what made a story successful.”
Middle Classroom Response
What did the student understand?
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What does the student still need to learn?
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Where would you go next instructionally with this student?
- Show how the main idea is pulled from the details
- Model how to take the details and make an overall generalization for the main idea
- Impress upon them that the knowledge we want isn’t in the text - it is something that you create and pull together
- Talk about the difference between retelling and summarizing
Bottom Classroom Response
What did the student understand?
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What does the student still need to learn?
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Where would you go next instructionally with this student?
- Ask him to reread the question to make sure he understands what he is being asked to do
- Focus his attention on the directions, title of the passage, and subheading
- Look for key words in the question
- Give him a chance to redo his work after you know he understands the question
