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Performance Task: Final Informative Consumer Guide Lesson PlanPerformance Task: Final Informative Consumer Guide Lesson Plan
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EngageNY
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Grade
6th
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English Language Arts
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Duration
45 mins
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2014
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Performance Task: Final Informative Consumer Guide

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  • Full Grade 6 ELA Module 3B (.pdf)
  • Full Grade 6 ELA Module 3B Updates: June 2015 (.pdf)
  • Full Grade 6 ELA Module 3B, Unit 3 (.pdf)
  • Grade 6 ELA Module 3B: Unit 3, Lesson 13 (.html)
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Formative feedback should be kind, specific, and helpful. Pupils engage in a peer editing process, using a rubric to critique a partner's writing. Next, scholars use the feedback to create the final version of their informative consumer guides.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

brochures, peer editing, informational texts, explanatory writing

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Have several model consumer guides on display 

Classroom Considerations

  • Final lesson from the 13-part Grade 6 ELA Module 3B, Unit 3 series
  • In advance, prepare the visual components for the consumer guides

Pros

  • Includes suggestions for accommodating students with diverse needs
  • Provides helpful teaching notes

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RI.6.7 W.6.2.a W.6.2.b W.6.2.c W.6.2.d W.6.2.e W.6.2.f W.6.9.a L.6.3.a L.6.3.b

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