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Students will have the opportunity to create their own book about the seasons. The activity includes an introduction about the earth's axis and how its tilt determines the seasons. It also comes with a fill-in-the blank activity sheet that correlates with the book. The students are given information about summer. They must use their inferencing and diagram interpretation skills to fill in the blanks on the sheet. The sentences on the information sheet can be copied onto the pages of the book, wo

Students will use the following steps to write a paragraph that analyzes a provided text: R - Students will be assigned a text to read as a class, in a group, or independently. A - Students will be provided a Comment Card and an Analysis Chart. Students will annotate the text and provide analysis as they read. Students will record their annotations and analysis on the Analysis Chart W - Students will be provided a writing template (Ping-Pong or Analytical Citation) Students w

The Comment Card will help students learn to annotate and respond to text as they read. The card helps students learn to predict, question, clarify, comment on, connect to, and quote the text. The annotation chart also teaches students to analyze the information pulled from the text. At the end of the exercise, the students will be asked to summarize the text and to identify the author's purpose for writing the text. Lesson Extension: The Comment Card Annotation Chart can be used with the Ping-