| Body | by Jessica Seator, AVID Coordinator at Hillsboro High School in Nashville, Tennessee
This activity was developed to support L1 and L2 learners with textual analysis and is designed to complement this week’s activity of the week.
Learning Objectives: Students will be able to
- Identify key words within a text.
- Analyze marking patterns of key words to engage in self-evaluation.
Mode: Interpretive reading
Materials Needed: Written text, handout
Procedure:
- Ask learners to mark the words that they think are key words within a text.
- Learners reflect on what patterns they notice when marking terms. Do they tend to identify the most complex terms? Do they tend to identify unknown terms?
- Learners evaluate how a partner identified terms after engaging in self-evaluation.
- Learners work together in a teacher-led class discussion to discern what the most important terms in the text are.
- Learners reflect on what strategies they wish to employ so that they can better identify key terms in a future activity.
Notes:
- As learners become more comfortable with key term identification, they should work more autonomously.
- A possible, related activity is to have learners work together to predict meaning of a source text by using key words alone. Then, after the learners have interacted with the text, they can verify the accuracy of their predictions.
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