Hello Partners, all of ThinkCERCA’s content is delivered through one of our four lesson types. This allows for consistency in terminology, process, and pedagogy across grade levels and across content areas.
Close Reading & Writing Lessons
Close Reading & Writing Lessons ask students to use close reading strategies and build formal arguments around a given text. Each lesson includes our proven, multi-step framework for writing that builds critical 21st century skills.
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Direct Instruction
Direct Instruction lessons are expert introductions to standards-aligned skills and concepts. They are presented in a slideshow-style format that can be used to teach the skill whole-class as explicit instruction or be assigned to individual students. Each Direct Instruction ends in a five-question, standards-based multiple choice quiz to check for understanding on the skill.
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Skills Lessons
Skills Practice Lessons are interactive lessons that provide grade-level instruction and practice in critical literacy skills. These lessons give students the opportunity to engage with and receive immediate feedback on a variety of question types.
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Reading Practice
Reading Practice lessons contain high-interest, authentic texts — featuring videos, graphs, charts, and other visual sources — that build students’ discipline-specific background knowledge. At the end of each lesson, students answer five multiple-choice questions to gauge comprehension.
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Custom Lessons
Custom Lessons are teacher-created lessons that allow educators to combine ThinkCERCA's Close Reading & Writing framework for expressing arguments with readings and writing prompts of their own creation.
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