1B-15 Today's News

1B-15  Today's News:  Information or Entertainment?

abandon -- biased -- contemporary -- dramatic -- exploit

Achieve Readings

1. When Sinking a Ship is Good News -- Generate Questions
2. A New Home for Two Pandas -- Compare and Contrast
3. Not the News! -- 
4. What are they trying to sell?  -- Generating Questions
5. To Warn the People -- Main Idea

Word Generation Pages - -1B-15

Week of January 20, 2014 - 1B-14

1A-14  Asthma:  More than a medical problem?
intervention -- phenomenon -- priority -- suspend  -- transmit

Achieve Readings

1. Less Smoke, Healthier Kids  --  Cause and Effect
2. No Idle Law -- Cause and Effect
3. The Air in Arvin  -- Cause and Effect

Week of January 13th, 2014 - 1B-13 -- Is the Death penalty justified?

1B-13  Is the Death penalty justified?
advocates -- contrary -- prohibit -- release -- reverse

ACHIEVE READINGS

1. Another Chance for A Better Life?  --  Cite Evidence
2. The U.N. Takes a Stand --  Compare and Contrast
3. Nation's Top Judge Dies -- Summarize

January 6th, 2014 - 1A-12 -- JUNK FOOD: SHOULD SCHOOLS SELL IT?

1A-12 -- JUNK FOOD:  Should schools sell it?

acknowledge -- incidence -- incorporate -- initiative -- transport

Achieve Readings:

1. What's for Lunch? --- Compare and Contrast
2. No More Candy, No More Chips --- Generating Questions
3. Don't Pass the Salt! --- Text Structure: Cause and Effect
4. We're Getting too Fat --- Problem Solution

For reading #1 -  Summarize all paragraphs.

For reading #2 -  Generate questions for the first five paragraphs.

For reading #3 -  Set the purpose for the first four paragraphs