HS8+Activities+and+Resources


 * 1) How can students identify, differentiate, and or use the different forms of readings/writing?
 * 2) What are the Assessable items in new standards (KCK/ACT) related to summary/paraphrasing?
 * 3) Is it possible to align pacing guides to allow PBL/CBL? How do we align PBL/CBL with our 4 week check-base assessments?
 * 4) What internet or web-based programs and other resources available for summarizing/paraphrasing?
 * 5) How to teach and model effective paraphrasing/summarizing more effectively across the curriculum?
 * 6) What does summary/paraphrasing look like in mindmapping, orally, visually, and/or written format?
 * 7) What we do with kids who are ESL or significantly below grade level?

Activities
 * Chart characteristics of technical, persuasive, expository, and narrative text (#1)
 * Annotate KCK standards for our specific content focused on paraphrasing/summarizing applications (#2)
 * Compare the units with possible CBL's/PBL's that would include paraphrasing and summarization. Develop one or two topics for instruction. (#3))
 * Search internet, interview local experts for various methods and strategies (#4)
 * Practice and peer evaluate using student text and rubric using different methods and strategies (#5)
 * Develop a basic rubric (or locate one) that identifies and evaluates paraphrasing/summarizing skills in mindmapping, orally, visually, and/or written format (#6)
 * Brainstorm, find strategies that provide scaffolding for various levels (#7)

Resources
 * Samples of different text types for each content area
 * Internet/I.C.'s/own expertise to identify 3 to 4 strategies methods for paraphrasing/summarizing
 * Pacing Guides (#4)
 * Access to other teachers (to interview about these issues)