What are the proven practices?

The next step is to read the research about the identified instructional practice.  These articles can be found on the ELA Livebinder Links to an external site. for each practice. Below is an annotated version of the article that relates to the Instructional Practice we identified in the previous step (Instructional Practice #1:  Teachers use high quality appropriately complex text as the center of instruction. There is a balance of informational and literary texts).  Read the article to gain an understanding of what standard and instructional strategy should be applied. 

Consider your answers to these questions:

• • What standard connects to the identified Instructional Practice?  
  • What standards-based task can be used to address the standard and Instructional Practice?

How do your answers compare?

• What standard(s) connects to the identified Instructional Practice? 

RI.5: Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.

RI.8: Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.

• What standards-based task can be used to address the standard and Instructional Practice?

A close reading of an informational text is an instructional strategy that addresses specific standards and builds student mastery of skills.