Re-read the text while noting the stopping points for the Text Dependent Questions and teaching Tier II/academic vocabulary. During Teaching Teach/reengage the idea of short story, science fiction, character, setting, conflict, resolution, etc. with your students. Students read the entire selection independently; give them a guide or something to look for: difficult vocabulary, identifying images, or sensory detail, etc. Teacher reads the text aloud while students follow along or students take turns reading aloud to each other. Students and teacher re-read the text while stopping to respond to and discuss the questions, continually returning to the text. A variety of methods can be used to structure the reading and discussion (i.e., whole class discussion, think-pair-share, independent written response, group work, etc.) Text Dependent Questions Text-dependent Questions Evidence-based Answers In paragraph one, while the narrator’s parents discuss the Lee Her parents felt sorry for the Lees because they needed Mrs. family, the narrator states, “I remembered how sorry my Lee to go to work. They needed a second income to make ends parents had felt for Mrs. Lee.” Why are they sorry for the Lees? meet. When the narrator’s mother went back to work, she didn’t tell Their mother wanted to keep her job a secret because she was either of her daughters. What was the purpose in her trying to doing something that was untraditional for Chinese families. hide her job from her daughters? Traditionally Chinese mothers stayed home with their children; she didn’t want to feel like she was being a bad mother by neglecting them. The narrator lies to her piano teacher about getting wet driving To the narrator, the convertible symbolizes that her family in her family’s convertible instead of the truth that she had to could afford a convertible and that their mother was available walk in the rain. What did the convertible represent to the to drive them instead of being unavailable because of her job.
Re-read the text while noting the stopping points for the Text Dependent Questions and teaching Tier II/academic vocabulary. During Teaching Teach/reengage the idea of short story, science fiction, character, setting, conflict, resolution, etc. with your students. Students read the entire selection independently; give them a guide or something to look for: difficult vocabulary, identifying images, or sensory detail, etc. Teacher reads the text aloud while students follow along or students take turns reading aloud to each other. Students and teacher re-read the text while stopping to respond to and discuss the questions, continually returning to the text. A variety of methods can be used to structure the reading and discussion (i.e., whole class discussion, think-pair-share, independent written response, group work, etc.) Text Dependent Questions Text-dependent Questions Evidence-based Answers In paragraph one, while the narrator’s parents discuss the Lee family, the narrator states, “I remembered how sorry my parents had felt for Mrs. Lee.” Why are they sorry for the Lees? Her parents felt sorry for the Lees because they needed Mrs. Lee to go to work. They needed a second income to make ends meet. When the narrator’s mother went back to work, she didn’t tell either of her daughters. What was the purpose in her trying to hide her job from her daughters? Their mother wanted to keep her job a secret because she was doing something that was untraditional for Chinese families. Traditionally Chinese mothers stayed home with their children; she didn’t want to feel like she was being a bad mother by neglecting them. The narrator lies to her piano teacher about getting wet driving in her family’s convertible instead of the truth that she had to walk in the rain. What did the convertible represent to the To the narrator, the convertible symbolizes that her family could afford a convertible and that their mother was available to drive them instead of being unavailable because of her job.