Sort Activity for Paired Text Reading IT Standard: 9 Mystery of Mars” (Open Court pages 140-143) “The Discoveries” (Science textbook pages 324-325) “Voyager Directions: Part A - Word Sort Read pages 140-143 in Mystery of Mars” and pages 324-325 in Discoveries.” “The “Voyage Write five significant facts from each source. Write three significant facts that relate to both sources. Record one fact in each box. Cut apart each box. Trade sort with a partner. the following headings, Mystery of Mars”, Discovery”, and sort the “The “Voyage “Both”, facts based on where the information came from. Have your partner check your sort. Part B Constructive Response – Compare the two sources, which text was more effective in presenting the facts about space exploration? Which text features helped to make it more effective (e.g., timeline, captions, photographs, text boxes, text)? Explain your answer. Language Frames to support students: _____ was more effective in presenting facts about space exploration. The text features that helped to make it more effective were…because…
Sort Activity for Paired Text Reading IT Standard: 9 “The Mystery of Mars” (Open Court pages 140-143) “Voyager Discoveries” (Science textbook pages 324-325) Directions: Part A - Word Sort Read pages 140-143 in “The Mystery of Mars” and pages 324-325 in “Voyage Discoveries.” Write five significant facts from each source. Write three significant facts that relate to both sources. Record one fact in each box. Cut apart each box. Trade sort with a partner. the following headings, “The Mystery of Mars”, “Voyage Discovery”, and “Both”, sort the facts based on where the information came from. Have your partner check your sort. Part B – Constructive Response Compare the two sources, which text was more effective in presenting the facts about space exploration? Which text features helped to make it more effective (e.g., timeline, captions, photographs, text boxes, text)? Explain your answer. Language Frames to support students: _____ was more effective in presenting facts about space exploration. The text features that helped to make it more effective were…because…
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