A paragraph from John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley provides English language learners with an opportunity to practice strategies for answering guiding questions about the academic text. Class members locate keywords in the annotated text, respond to supplemental questions, and then to the guiding question for the activity.

Concepts

john steinbeck, traveling, reading, reading comprehension, answering questions, responding to reading

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Instructional Ideas

• Project the passage and read aloud as learners follow along
• Enlarge and post a color image of the cover of the travelogue that shows Steinbeck with Charley
• Teachers should view the instructional video before conducting the lesson

Classroom Considerations

• Designed for advanced language learners
• Requires copies of the selected excerpt and the worksheet

Pros

• The supplemental questions provide scaffolding so that learners can answer the guiding question

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.7.2 SL.7.1.a SL.7.1.b SL.7.1.c SL.7.1.d L.7.6