UNIT X UNIT 8 | 287 DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION Scaffold Support students’ understanding of problems and solutions by providing sentence frames. Brainstorm three problems together and solutions. Then model how to say and write the problems and solutions. I don’t have a pencil. I can borrow a pencil. I don’t understand the story. I can ask a friend for help understanding the story. I got a bad grade. I can ask the teacher for help. Amplify Ask students to extend their understanding of problems and solutions by writing sentences that offer advice to solve these problems: I don’t have a pencil. I don’t understand the story. I got a bad grade. Sample solutions: You can borrow a pencil. You can ask a friend for help understanding the story. You can ask the teacher for help. Reading Strategy: Problem and Solution • Build academic language proficiency Discuss the meaning of problem and solution in this context. Point out some problems and solutions in popular children’s fiction. Say: The problem in Beauty and the Beast was a curse. The solution was Belle’s love for the Beast. • Identify problem and solution Explain the reading strategy. Say: Problems and solutions can often show us the central ideas of stories. A Interpret images Direct students’ attention to the pictures. Call on volunteers to read the sentences. Have students look at each image with a partner and discuss possible solutions for each problem depicted. Have volunteers share their solutions with the class. ANSWERS Sample answers: 1. Your homework is difficult. Ask your parents for help. 2. Oscar doesn’t know a word. Look the word up in a dictionary. 3. The phone fell into the water. Put the phone in a bag of rice. B Use a graphic organizer Copy the graphic organizer onto the board. Review each sentence in Activity A. Elicit whether the sentences describe problems or solutions. Have students write the problems in the first column of their charts. Then have students write solutions in the second column of their charts. ANSWERS Sample answers: 1. problem: homework is difficult, solution: ask parents for help; 2. problem: doesn’t know a word, solution: use a dictionary; 3. problem: phone fell in water, solution: put it in rice C • Discuss problems and solutions Have students work in small groups to share their solutions. Discuss the benefits of each solution. Write the best solution in the graphic organizer on the board. • Use language for problems and solutions Have students brainstorm other common problems they face. Write these problems on the board. Then have students work in pairs to generate solutions to these problems. Practice Book p. 155 Assessment Program p. 141 EXPLORE AND LEARN COMMUNICATE PRACTICE Problem and Solution Reading Strategy Think about a story you read. What was the problem? What was the solution? An informational text can also show problems and solutions. Identifying the problems and solutions can help you understand the central idea. Try Out the Strategy A Discuss possible solutions to the problems. 1. Your homework is difficult. 2. Oscar doesn’t know a word. 3. The phone fell into the water. B Write the problems from Activity A in the T-chart. Then, write your best solution next to each problem. C Use the T-chart to discuss your solutions. My homework is difficult. I can ask my sister to help me. problem solution 1. homework is difficult 2. 3. UNIT 8 287 UNIT X8 / BEFORE YOU READ
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