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Shared Inquiry™ Learning Objectives

Reading Comprehension

  • Use prereading strategies
  • Generate questions about the story
  • Make generalizations and draw conclusions
  • Answer questions about the story’s meaning
  • Summarize stories and passages
  • Discuss interpretations of the story
  • Cite passages to support questions and ideas
  • Read with fluency
  • Gain exposure to a wide range of words
  • Use context to figure out word meaning
  • Read with a purpose and take notes to monitor comprehension
  • Practice using a variety of reading strategies

Critical Thinking

  • Ask interpretive questions
  • Generate ideas with a clear focus in response to questions
  • Support ideas with relevant evidence
  • Respond to other students’ ideas, questions, and arguments
  • Revise ideas and evidence based on Shared Inquiry discussion
  • Modify an argument to incorporate other students’ ideas
  • Question other students’ perspectives
  • Compare and weigh evidence
  • Evaluate ideas for sense and evidence
  • Present ideas logically and peruasively

Listening and Speaking

  • Comprehend as stories are read aloud
  • Listen actively and carefully to others; listen for differing ideas
  • Ask for clarification
  • Respond to other students’ questions
  • Participate in discussion
  • State ideas clearly
  • Agree and disagree constructively
  • Explain and defend arguments

Writing

  • Take notes about a story
  • Record personal responses before and after discussion
  • Use discussion to generate and develop ideas
  • Use graphic organizers to plan writing
  • Write a first draft
  • Write descriptions, narratives, expository essays, and persuasive essays
  • Practice creative writing
  • Revise writing in response to feedback