Objective: I can determine the counterclaim in the “smartphone” AOW by rereading its claim written in my own words, consulting with my elbow partner, and completing the sentence frame for the counterclaim.
Activities:
- SSR: Each student will add new entries to the 4-Column Inference Journal for the library book selected last Friday.
- Independent Study: Each student will reread or write down the claim sentence for the “smartphone” AOW written in his/her own words. See Promethean Board.
- Turn-and-Talk: Each student will ask her/his elbow partner this question: What is the opposite of this claim?
- Independent Study: Write down the opposite of the claim using the given sentence frame.
- Share Out: What is the opposite of the claim? The whole class will come to a consensus.
- Independent Study: Students will complete the Claim Method worksheet for counterclaim supporting evidence.
- Submission: Students will submit the completed Claim Method worksheet along with the “smartphone” AOW that includes five roadblock solutions beyond the two exemplars using the context clues and breaking-the-word-down strategies.
- Word Wall Activities: 4-Step process for today’s vocabulary.