Using Seed Texts as Springboards to Research
Description
In this unit, students read Chapter 1 of Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson’s, Animals in Translation. The text serves two primary functions: first, students analyze how Temple Grandin develops and refines her central ideas as they read; and second, the text is a seed text that students use to uncover and explore potential research topics that emerge from it. Students identify and track these topics, which become springboards to the inquiry-based research process that continues in the following unit. Additionally, students are introduced to posing and refining inquiry questions about their topic for the purpose of guiding their initial research.
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Bilingual Language Progressions
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.
Tags
- CCSS Standard:
- L.9.10.4A,
- L.9.10.4C,
- RI.9.10.2,
- RI.9.10.3,
- RI.9.10.4,
- RI.9.10.5,
- RI.9.10.7,
- SL.9.10.1C,
- SL.9.10.1D,
- W.9.10.4,
- W.9.10.7,
- W.9.10.8,
- W.9.10.9
- Authors:
- Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson
