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1 Teaching the FCAT should not be a juggling act Let us help you!!! USE THE NEWSPAPER TO TEACH FCAT STRATEGIES THE MIAMI HERALD CONTACT NUMBERS: Miami-Dade: (305) Fax: (305) Broward: (954) ext Toll Free: (800) nie@herald.com brought to you by the Newspaper In Education Department, The Miami Herald One Herald Plaza, Miami, Florida NIE Mission Statement The Miami Herald s Newspaper In Education Department promotes literacy, learning, and life-long readership for educators, parents, students, and the multicultural community-at-large. We provide diverse, customized, and relevant educational materials, programs, and workshops, designed to enhance the use of the newspaper in the classroom.

2 TASK 1 explain the author s purpose by including specific information from the text. 1. Which method does the author use to tell the reader.? 2. What is the author s purpose in saying.? 3. How does the author achieve his/her purpose in.? 4. What is the author s position, and how does he/she address the opposing point of view in..? 5. What point does the author make when he/she says..? * Support your details, facts, statistics or TASK 2 DIRECTIONS- Select an appropriate story from the Miami Herald and have your students complete any of these 12 tasks. Stress to students that they must always support their details, facts, statistics or other information from the newspaper article. describe the cause or effect of an action or event. 1. What caused.to? 2. What was the effect of? 3. Why did happen? 4. Why..? * Support your details, facts, statistics or TASK 3 analyze a portion of the text. 1. How does. change from..? 2. What is the central problem in..? 3. What tone is created by the author s use of? 4. What is the central theme in..? 5. How would. Be different if.? * Support your details, facts, statistics or 2

3 TASK 4 Use a quotation from the text and design a question that requires you to make an inference. 1. What can you infer from.? 2. Why does it seem probable that.? 3. What does the author imply by saying..? * Support your details, facts, statistics or other information from the text. TASK 5 Design a question that requires you to determine the correct definition of a word, phrase or idea in context. 1. What does the author mean when she/he says.? 2. What can you infer from..? 3. What does the author imply by saying.? 4. Why does it seem probable that.? * Support your details, facts, statistics or other information from the text. TASK 6 Use a quotation from the text and design a question which requires you to explain what the author means by a statement and requires you to support your answer with information from the text. 1. What does the author mean when she/her writes...? 2. What tone does the author create by writing..? * Support your details, facts, statistics or other information from the text. 3

4 TASK 7 draw a conclusion about information in the text. 1. How does the author portray.? 2. What does.advise.to do? 3. What can the reader conclude after reading.? 4. What details, facts, or statistics led you to believe.? 5. Why does. act in this way? * Support your details, facts, statistics or FCAT TASK 8 use the skill of sequencing in order to form an answer. 1. What happens before (during, after)? 2. What does the author arrange this selection by.? 3. How does the author use time in..? 4. Why does the author begin (end) by saying? * Support your details, facts, statistics or TASK 9 find the main idea of the passage. 1. What is the main idea of..? 2. What is another good title for this passage about..? 3. Explain why the author probably titled the article.? 4. Write a summary of.? * Support your details, facts, statistics or other information from the text. 4

5 TASK 10 compare and/or contrast information in the text or across texts. 1. How is.. like.? 2. How is.different from? 3. How is both similar to and different from? 4. What is the effect of comparing.. to? 5. Why does the author make a comparison between.. and.? **FCAT Writing Activity** Select an appropriate article from the Miami Herald and have your students write a short essay in response to one of the four prompts which will appear in the test. They will ask students to: 1. Give information 2. Explain something 3. Clarify a process 4. Define a concept * Support your details, facts, statistics or other information from the text. TASK 11 TASK 12 analyze the validity or reliability of information in one or more texts. 1. If you were a.., how could you use this information to? * Support your details, facts, statistics or other information from the text. 5 Design a question that requires you to use the skill of identifying details or statistics in order to form an answer. 1. What details in the text support the idea that.? 2. How does the writer use statistics to support the idea that..? * Support your answer with relevant details, facts, statistics or

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