Criteria for Transitional Checking For Understanding (cfu)

Transitional CFU: _Students chorally repeat the objective. Pull 3-4 sticks.\

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  Concept Development:
  
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    Definition(s)
    

Tells about things you did or saw

Tells how you feel.

Information—Tells about a person, place or thing

Tells how it looks or what it does

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  Examples/Non-examples (when appropriate)
  

Transitional CFU: Choral Cloze Sentences. Tell a partner, shout it out.

Repeat the entire definitions.

A story tells about ____

Information shows how something _____________ or what it ________.

DEFINITION

III. Build Schema/Teacher Model:

TEACHER	STUDENT
Modeling-Think Aloud	Active Engagement Processing Teacher Thinking
Bugs—Descriptive Today I’m going to show how I know which passages are a story and which are information. What am I going to do? I need to look at the definitions to help me figure it out. Let’s read them again. Repeat Story definition Repeat Information definition Here are the steps to figuring out if a passage is a story or information: (Put Up Poster with Steps) Read each line of the passage. Look at the definitions of story and information. Decide what each line of the passage is telling. Step 1: Read each line. What’s the first step? Read first line of “Bugs”. Step 2: Look at the definitions of story and information. What’s the second step? Look at the definitions again (repeat out loud, if necessary) Step 3: Decide what the line of the passage is telling. What’s the third step? This is telling me about a thing and not myself. Circle “bugs” and label “thing” in text.What’s it telling me about? I think this might be information because it’s telling me about a thing and not myself. Why do I think this might be information? Chunk sentence frame. Repeat the steps of “recipe” for each line of text. Read second line of “Bugs”. Ask Rhetorically: Is this about me and what I did or about the bugs? It’s about how the bugs look. Circle “small” and label “looks”. What is it about? I think this might be information because it’s telling me about how the bugs look. Why do I think this is information? Chunk sentence frame. Read third line of “Bugs”. This is telling me what the bugs do. Circle “bite” and label “does”. I think it’s information because it’s telling me about what a bug does. What is it telling me? I know it’s information because it’s telling me about a thing, what it looks like, and what it does. How do I know it’s descriptive? Chunk Sentence Frame. Read fourth line of “Bugs”. This is telling me what the bugs do. Circle “itch” and label “does”. I think it’s information because it’s telling me about what a bug does. What is it telling me? I know this paragraph is information because it’s telling me about a thing, what it looks like, and what it does. How do I know it’s information? Chunk Sentence Frame.	Choral Partner Partner Chorally repeat each step. Partner share each step. Pull sticks to check each step. Choral Choral Choral Choral Echo sentence frame in chunks Choral Echo sentence frame in chunks Choral Echo sentence frame in chunks Tell a partner Pull sticks Choral Echo sentence frame in chunks Tell a partner Pull sticks
Bugs—Story I’m going to figure out how I know if this passage is a story or information. What am I going to do? Repeat the steps of “Recipe” for each line. Read first line of “Bugs”. I see the word I and it’s telling me about something that happened to me. Circle “I” . What is it telling me? I think this might be a story because it’s telling what happened to me. Why do I think this might be a story? Chunk sentence frame. Read second line of “Bugs”. Ask Rhetorically: Is this about me and what I did or about how the bugs look? It says “I woke up”, Circle “I woke up”. It is still telling about something that happened to me. What is it telling me? I think this might be a story because it’s telling about what I did. Why do I think this is a story? Chunk sentence frame. Read third line of “Bugs”. This is telling me about what I did. Circle “I called for my mom”. What is it telling me? I think it’s a story because it’s telling about what I did. Why do I think it’s a story? Chunk Sentence Frame. Read fourth line of “Bugs”. This is telling me about what I did. Circle “I had to sleep”. What is it telling me? I know this is a story because it uses the word “I” and it’s telling about what I did. Why do I think it’s a story? Chunk Sentence Frame.	Choral Choral Echo sentence frame in chunks Choral Echo sentence frame in chunks choral Echo sentence frame in chunks Choral Echo sentence frame in chunks Partner repeat Sticks

Transitional CFU: _What are the steps to deciding if a passage is a

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Possible Differentiation:

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