Paired Texts and Perspectivas

“Learners will love the selection of short, authentic texts: posters, photographs, vox pops, interviews, arguments, personal recounts, reports, and primary source documents. And, teachers will love the resulting bursts of language, deep thinking, and powerful persuasive writing.“

—Linda Hoyt, Series Consultant

Concept Sets Build Understanding Of Key Issues

Paired Texts Lesson Plan: Sequence

• Exploring Vocabulary

• Establishing Strategy Focus

• Reading with Teacher Support

• Working with a Partner

• Quick Writing

• Talk About the Book

• Vocabulary Reflection

• Strategy Reflection

Persuasive

Perspectivas Lesson Plan: Sequence

• Inquiry

• Independent Partner Work

• Thinking and Talking Circles

• Reading Closely

• Writing a Persuasive Argument

Perspectivas motivate and enable Spanishspeaking ELs to express opinions and explore ideas about what they read.

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Beginning with the Fluent Plus stage, we continue our award-winning formula of pairing a narrative text with an informational text, both connected by the same big idea.

Informational texts present the big ideas around a concept. They go beyond readers’ personal experiences and include a range of features including primary sources that support the text.

Narrative texts reflect the big ideas through their characters and plots. They feature plots with subplots, non-sequential treatment of time, and a range of literary devices.

Extend students’ thinking with additional views of the issues introduced in the paired texts.

Perspectivas contain short texts in a magazinestyle format and include posters, arguments, discussions, letters, and visual images.

Lesson Plans for the pair encourage higher-level thinking and provide opportunities for students to write in response to both the text and to their collaborative conversations.

Perspectivas Lesson Plans engage and support students in critical discussions, and in recognizing different points of view. Performance task cards provide opportunities to demonstrate comprehension.

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