UNIT 1 BEFORE YOU READ DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION EXPLORE AND LEARN Scaffold For students who need additional presentation of the concept of supporting evidence, read aloud a short text or picture book for students to practice with. Then ask specific questions; for example: What is the text structure? What evidence tells you this? What are character traits of the main character? What evidence tells you this? What is the setting? What evidence tells you this? Read parts of the story again as necessary for students to answer the questions. Emphasize that supporting evidence can also be found in illustrations and graphics. Amplify Point out that support is a useful, multiple-meaning word that can be used in many contexts, not just in the phrase supporting evidence. Have students work in a group to find additional meanings and examples of support in a reference resource. Then ask them to use the word support in two or three example sentences that show a different context. For those ready for an added challenge, do the same task with the word cite. Reading Strategy: Identify Supporting Evidence • Determine central idea Read aloud the information on the page. Help students understand that finding the central idea of a text is a natural aid to understanding the reading. It is the most important idea that an author wants to convey. • Cite textual evidence Explain that the first step in finding the central idea is to look for clues in the text. Help students see that it is important to find supporting evidence so that they can discuss the text, answer questions about the text, explain why their answers are correct, and be confident about their comprehension. Point out that the arms of the graphic organizer show examples of types of evidence. CULTURE NOTE • Recognize loan words Ask students to turn to a classmate and read aloud the information in the box to each other. Explain that a loan word is an exact word picked up from another language and used in English. Explain that these are different from cognates, which are related words that are recognizable because they are similar in different languages. Some common loan words students may know are croissant (French), café (French), and kindergarten (German). Invite students to share one loan word they know and what language it comes from. • Teacher note Students will discuss loan words in more detail in this unit on page 29. ACADEMIC VOCABULARY Acquire and use academic vocabulary Have students study the information about the word support. Explain that supporting evidence is evidence that supports the central idea. A • Identify text features Ask all students to point to the title and author before asking a student to read each aloud. • Analyze integrated visuals with text After students describe what they see in the image, have them turn to a peer and explain how the image supports the information in the text. • Build language comprehension Allow students the opportunity to identify any unfamiliar words or phrases. Have them work in pairs to determine their meaning, using a variety of strategies. Circulate to offer support and present to the class any elements that are unfamiliar to several students. • Identify key words Point out the highlighted word advised. Ask: Why is this highlighted? Remind students that this is a vocabulary word that they learned on page 5. PRACTICE You will read memoirs (stories about people’s pasts) by visual artists in the United States. The artists write about their ancestors. As you read, think about the most important idea. This is called the central idea (main idea). To find the central idea, look for supporting evidence. Supporting evidence is something that proves what you say. • Look at the title, author, and images. • Look for details about people and places. • Look for clue words that are repeated or related. A Read the memoir “My Grandmother Miriam Sultani Zughaib” and look at the images. 1. What is the title and who is the author? 2. What do you see in the images? 3. Write three clue words from the text. details about people details about places repeated or related words title and author images CENTRAL IDEA Reading Strategy IDENTIFY SUPPORTING EVIDENCE Memoir is a loan word from French. It means memory. English has many loan words. Do you know any? CULTURE NOTE Supporting Evidence Organizer ACADEMIC VOCABULARY support (verb) DEFINITION to help show that something is true EXAMPLE Make sure you support your ideas with details. WORD FORMS supporting, supported, supportive UNIT 1 6 BEFORE YOU READ BLC23_SE_LB_U01_004-007_BR.indd 6 8/30/21 11:58 AM 6 | Teacher’s Edition • UNIT 1
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