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Shift 1 |
Balancing Informational & Literary Text
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Students read a true balance of informational and literary texts.
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Shift 2
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Knowledge in the Disciplines
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Students build knowledge about the world (domains/ content areas) through TEXT rather than the teacher or activities
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Shift 3
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Staircase of Complexity
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Students read the central, grade appropriate text around which instruction is centered. Teachers are patient, create more time and space and support in the curriculum for close reading.
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Shift 4
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Text-based Answers
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Students engage in rich and rigorous evidence based conversations about text.
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Shift 5
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Writing from Sources
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Writing emphasizes use of evidence from sources to inform or make an argument.
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Shift 6
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Academic Vocabulary
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Students constantly build the transferable vocabulary they need to access grade level complex texts. This can be done effectively by spiraling like content in increasingly complex texts.
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