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01-01-2017
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These subsequent readings and related instruction are to move students into deeper comprehension and analyses of the text toward the relevant CCSS. Teacher introduces this next task by first reminding students of the work they’ve done on this text such as determining the author’s purpose, analyzing how the author unfolds a series of ideas, and studying several vocabulary words. Teacher tells students that now they are going to determine the central ideas in the text and analyze the development of each central idea to consider how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details.