Instruction

1. Build vocabulary 15 min

Develop word knowledge

Students work with the adaptive Vocab App to build key text and academic vocabulary and track their level of mastery.

2. Close read 20-25 min

Collaborate and interpret text

Students read analytically to build content knowledge and analyze writers’ intentions, choices, and claims. Through a wide variety of activities, students unpack the text by analyzing evidence, discussing interpretations, collaborating, working visually, listening to readings, and developing connections across texts.

3. Performance task 15-20 min

Develop and present ideas

Students continue to refine their understanding of the text, topic, and standard with frequent writing activities that ask them to develop their analyses with claims and evidence. To show further evidence of their learning and communicate their ideas, students also participate in Socratic seminars, discussions, performances/ presentations, role-playing a character from the text, or trying on a writer’s style.

4. Reflect 5 min

Solidify learning

Amplify lessons offer two ways for students to reflect on learning at the end of the lesson.

• Exit Ticket: Quick snapshot of students’ understanding of the standard targeted by the lesson’s close reading.
• Wrap-Up: An opportunity to reflect on the ideas discussed, extend students’ thinking, or preview upcoming material.