Anchor Text Adventures
The purpose of using the anchor text in a unit.
What is to build background knowledge and anchor the unit theme?
These types of assessments are embedded in Into Literature
What are exit slips, Analyze the Model tasks, Check for Understanding, and Performance Tasks.
HQI stands for this.
What is High Quality Instruction?
The location where teachers find daily lesson plans and resources
What is the On Ed: Your Friend in Learning (HMH digital platform)?
This is an example of Connected Solutions
What is Writable?
The anchor text does this to connect to the unit theme.
What is it models the theme and provides opportunities for students to explore big ideas through discussion and writing?
This allows students to demonstrate mastery of skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
What is Performance Task?
High-quality questioning strategies are these.
What is using open-ended, text-dependent questions that require justification with evidence.
These provide collaboration time to analyze data, share strategies, and calibrate pacing.
What are PLCs?
Writable Journeys do this
What is maximize your instructional planning and prep time and allow you to choose a targeted, skill-aligned path that works with your existing instructional plan?
Give an example of a close reading strategy used with anchor texts.
What is annotating for evidence, rereading key passages, or text-dependent questioning.
Analyze the Model resource does this.
What is showing exemplar writing pieces, breaking them down, and modeling techniques for students to imitate?
Think-pair-share, small group discussions, and Socratic Seminars with guiding questions are examples of these.
What is embedded collaborative discussions?
Strategies for aligning Into Literature with district pacing.
What is using district pacing guides, backwards planning from Performance Tasks, or setting monthly checkpoints.
Peer Coach Videos
What are short clips of peer-aged students teaching literary and informational skills, such as identifying Notice & Note Signposts.
This provides rich content knowledge while embedding opportunities to practice literacy skills like citing evidence and analyzing structure.
What is the anchor text?
This shows where students are struggling so teachers can reteach or provide targeted support.
What is formative assessment?
Asking students to compare texts, analyze arguments, and evaluate author’s craft are examples of this.
What is building critical thinking across texts?
A best practice for preparing students for the Performance Task.
What is scaffolding with graphic organizers, modeling exemplar responses, and practicing shorter writing tasks?
Memory Moment, Again and Again are examples of these
Providing text audio, breaking text into chunks, using scaffolding questions, or assigning partner reading are examples of what?
What is differentiated instruction using an anchor text?
Slowing down to reteach citing evidence; grouping students for targeted writing conferences are examples of this.
What is using student data to adjust pacing and instruction?
Modeling close reading, teaching accountable talk, scaffolding text-based writing are examples of this.
What is HQI?
This is a time saver for teachers.
What is AI?
5 Minute Conferencing Outline, Authenticity Checker, Report Card Comments, and Vocabulary Scaffolder are examples of this.
What are Into Literature AI tools?