PSSA+Zone

​ Countdown to the PSSA • Main idea and supporting details • Fiction, non fiction (Create/review charts with students: ways to identify facts and opinion • Review how to identify author’s purpose • Review types of text and text format • Respond to writing prompts – have students score their writing • Review types of literary devices • Review problem/solution – practice retelling narrative text using talk across the fingers strategy • Have students use test taking strategies to answer questions • Have students evaluate their own answer, reacting reflectively and productively to their results. • Discuss analyze, and teach questions that presented a problem for students. • Review PSSA scoring guide for open ended questions • Review the CAP strategy/ have students use CAP to answer open ended questions • Use a PSSA style open ended prompt that is related to the daily reading • Have students use QAR to answer questions • Teacher should teach questions that presented a problem for the students • Review point of view, style and tone and what they look like • Define, give examples and relate to text for citing evidence, citing information and clarifying information • Include eligible content in your lesson through the reading that is being done already Please include these skills in your lessons