To provide students with ways to practice deep comprehension, close reading strategies for non-fiction texts, we buddy-read a selection. One student takes notes on a red sheet, paying attention to negative statements or ideas. The other uses a green sheet, recording positive statements.
Students help one another read and collect information, and they consider bias, pros and cons of events in history. Finally, pairs develop a debate "script" where they turn-key their section to the class in a performance. It could be two competing paragraphs or a back and forth dialogue.
This week we are reading the section on explorers. So, the essential question becomes "Is exploration a good thing for humankind?" Students will extend their thinking by asking what the world would be like without this age of exploration and trade. Transfer of knowledge and fun. Woohoo!
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