Working towards a standards-based ELA unit, I completed Standard 1, which is our most basic, essential standard: Ask and Answer Questions.
Asking Questions has always been a really difficult area for my students. It is hard to teach the difference between fluff questions and questions that will really help us understand the text.
Answering Questions has been the easier of the two. However, PROVING where they have found their answer from the text is the hard part. In my CCSS: Ask and Answer pack, I start with three mini lessons that teach the students the difference between questions and sentences, how to ask a logical question, and how to find answers inside of text.
Mini Lesson 1:
Here, we’re introducing Ask/Answer. Then reading mentor text. Followed by Turn and Talk partner sharing questions about the text.
Day Two Mini Lesson:
Students will fold text in half, and ask a question about the illustration with a partner. Then, after reading the text, they’ll respond to the partner’s question in this standards-based ELA unit.
Mini Lesson 3:
Next, students will look at the title and illustration and write a question about the text. Then read the text, followed with highlighting or color-coding task cards. Finally, they’ll answer questions using the text.
Here is what the entire standards-based ELA unit pack will come with:
Lessons and Printables
Reading Passages and Interactive Pieces
Task Cards and Assessment
You can grab the first grade pack or second grade pack.
(Same stories and worksheets- 2nd stories and (some) questions are a little more complex.)
Grab your Ask and Answer Questions Standards-Based ELA Unit Here:
RL1.1- 1st Grade
RL2.1- 2nd Grade
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