In this lesson, students analyze how different sections of “Water Is Life” contribute to the overall meaning of the text. “Water Is Life,” unlike some informational texts, does not mark sections with headers or breaks. Instead, the text is organized around different ideas; sections are signaled by transitions.
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These resources, developed by the New York State Education Department, provide standard-level scaffolding suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs) to help them meet grade-level demands. Each resource contains scaffolds at multiple levels of language acquisition and describes the linguistic demands of the standards to help ELA teachers as well as ESL/bilingual teachers scaffold content for their English learning students.