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AFTER READING
OBJECTIVES
  • Formulate an inquiry question that is connected to this week's lesson focus.
  • Effectively and efficiently find, evaluate, and communicate information related to an inquiry question using electronic sources.
New Literacies
Synthesize
Analyze
Communicate
Navigate/Search
Identify Questions
Day 5
Day 4
Day 3
Day 2
Day 1
OBJECTIVES
  • Review the terms skim and scan as they relate to reading.
  • Skim and scan a textbook.
Practice Book
Practice Book 3.1 p. 30
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NEW LITERACIES
Internet Inquiry Activity
EXPLORE USING MONEY WISELY
Use the following 5-day plan to help students conduct this week's Internet inquiry
activity on using money wisely. Remind students to follow classroom rules when
using the Internet.
DAY 1
DAY 2
DAY 4
DAY 3
Identify Questions Discuss the lesson focus question: How can we use money wisely? Brainstorm ideas for specific inquiry questions about budgeting your money. For example, students might want to find out ways to make their allowance last longer or save money to buy a particular item. Have students work individually, in pairs, or in small groups to write an inquiry question they want to answer.
Navigate/Search Explain how to use student-friendly search engines. Using a child-oriented search engine will avoid the many budget-related Web sites created for adults. Encourage students to read descriptions of Web sites. This will help students identify helpful and credible Web sites to visit.
Analyze Students will explore the Web sites they identified on Day 2. Tell them to explore each site for information that helps answer their inquiry questions. Students should analyze information for usefulness. They can print out and highlight relevant information or take notes about it.
Synthesize Have students synthesize information from Day 3. Remind them that when they synthesize, they combine relevant ideas and information from different sources to develop an answer to their inquiry questions.
Communicate Have students share their inquiry results. They can use a word processing program to create a table that shows the ways they can budget their money.
DAY 5
RESEARCH/STUDY SKILLS
Skim and Scan
TEACH
Invite students to recall a time when they read quickly through a textbook or reading
passage. Ask what kind of information they were looking for. Tell students that there
are two ways to quickly find information while reading.
  • Skimming is a way to quickly find the main idea of a text. You can also skim
    a text to locate parts of interest. To skim, you might read titles, subtitles,
    subheadings, illustrations, and captions. Often the first sentence in each
    paragraph, or the first two or three paragraphs along with the last, will give
    the reader a good amount of information.
  • Scanning is when you look for certain words or ideas. Readers might
    scan a document to see if it is useful for a research project. Scanning
    can also help a reader determine which parts of a text to read in more detail.
Have students scan their science textbooks to make a list of six topics covered
in the book. Ask them to select one topic; then skim the text to find one or two
main ideas about this topic. Discuss these questions with the class.
  1. Which parts of the book would you scan to find the topics? (Possible answer:
    the index and table of contents)
  2. Which parts of the book would you skim to find a main idea? (Possible answer:
    illustrations, graphs, review exercises, titles, subtitles)
 
ASSESS
As students look through the textbooks, make sure they are looking for keywords and not reading pages word for word. Check that they are able to locate chapter headings and subheadings, titles, subtitles, captions, and so on.
For more practice or to assess students, use Practice Book 3.1, p. 30.
Skim and Scan
Skim and Scan