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Module Overview
Pre-Assessment
Unit 1: Career and College Readiness in the Technical Subjects
Unit 2: Content Literacy in the Technical Subjects, K-5
Unit 3: Building Content Literacy in the Technical Subjects, 6–12 Reading
3.1 College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading
3.2 Reading Standard 1: Evidence, Inferences, and Conclusions
3.3 Reading Standard 2: Central Ideas and Summarizing
3.3.1 Finding Central Ideas
3.3.2 Lesson Ideas in Technical Subjects, Standard 2
3.3.3 Action Plan for Standard 2
3.4 Reading Standard 3: Multistep Procedures
3.5 CCR Anchor Standards, Reading 4, 5, & 6
3.6 Reading Standards 7, 8, and 9: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
3.7 Reading Standard 10: Text Complexity
3.8 Unit Summary
Unit 4: Building Content Literacy in the Technical Subjects, 6–12 Writing
4.1 College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing
4.2 Writing in the Technical Subjects in the 21st Century
4.3 Writing Standard 1: Arguments to Support Claims
4.4 Different Types and Purposes of Writing
4.5 Writing Standard 2: Informative/Explanatory Text
4.6 Writing Standards 4, 5, and 6: Production and Distribution of Writing
4.7 Writing Standards 7, 8, and 9: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
4.8 Writing Standard 10: Range of Writing
4.9 Unit Summary: Review
Module Summary
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Certificate of Completion
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3.3.1 Finding Central Ideas
Watch the following video to see how one teacher uses a strategy called "Thinking Notes" to help students engage in close reading, note their observations, and identify the central ideas of a text.
Thinking Notes: A Strategy to Encourage Close Reading

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Consider a text that you use in your technical subject class and in your Journal below, briefly explain how you would introduce Thinking Notes.

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