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Standard: Read With Understanding Outcomes Choose a health topic that is relevant to their life, gather information, and practice comprehension strategies in various texts.

Classroom Information

GED Descriptors:       , Language Arts Reading, Science Roles:      Family, Community Member Program Type(s)      ABE, GED, Family Literacy, Urban, Rural NRS Learner levels (ABE/GED)       3, 4, 5, 6 Time frame:       2-3 weeks Technology Integration Living Longer Survey Life Expectancy Calculator Inquiry Chart

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Standard: Read With Understanding

Component of Performance How activity addresses component Determine the reading purpose Students will identify texttoself, texttotext, or text to world connections with the selected reading materials. Select reading strategies appropriate to the purpose Uses text clues and prior knowledge to make logical predictions/inferences. Students will use 1who, what, when, where, and why' to construct healthrelated questions. Monitor comprehension and adjust reading strategies Identifies strategies used to clarify words or ideas not understood and possible confusions before and during reading. Analyze information and reflect on its underlying meaning Students stop to summarize, during reading, what has happened and can identify main points of the text and place them in logical order. Integrate it with prior knowledge to address reading purpose Discusses changes in behavior about the health topics researched and tells how each comprehension strategy helps with increasing understanding of text.

Purposeful, Transparent, Building Expertise

Purposeful and Transparent By using the matrix, students are able to monitor which strategies they have mastered and which strategy needs more practice. Contextual Because students are concerned about becoming more healthy, reading healthrelated materials to discover techniques they can use in their everyday lives was important to them. Building Expertise Each student will practice strategies that can be applied to current and future reading materials.

Lesson Designer Judy Franks Ohio Literacy Resource Center (330) 6720753 jfranks@literacy.kent.edu

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