Lesley Hilts’ Intervention
- Utilize specific annotation strategies (codes, underlining, commenting) to identify the claim and support in a text.
Prompt/Task
Reading/writing assignments: Read and annotate a nonfiction, grade appropriate text; identify the author’s claim and the evidence to support it.
Design Overview
- Pre-test (November)
- 9-10 text: Basic English (two classes) English One (Five classes); English Two (four classes). 11-12 text: English Three (three classes); EWU 170: Intro to Literature (one class); Bridge to College (three classes).
- English Department group assessment of pre-tests including the creation of a reliable rubric and anchor texts.
- Intervention (series of lessons to teach annotation, rhetorical strategies, claims and evidence/elaboration)
- Post-test (February)
- 9-10 text: Basic English (two classes) English One (Five classes); English Two (four classes). 11-12 text: English Three (three classes); EWU 170: Intro to Literature (one class); Bridge to College (three classes).
- English Cohort group assessment of pre-tests including the creation of a reliable rubric and anchor texts.
Population
- LAP and IEP students
- Honors students
- General Education students
