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Title Choose a selection from your content area in the unit you are teaching.
Background for This is a great strategy to use when the students are faced with learning new and
the Teacher difficult information. It provides students with a process for organizing their prior
knowledge and making projections. Depending on the subject matter, this strategy
could utilize up to a full class period.
Purpose of The purpose of the lesson is to provide a step-by-step process for organizing
Lesson thinking and facilitating learning of new and difficult material.
Students will consider how words in the text are related and different. Pull the
words out of the dumpster and clump them into categories
The learning for the lesson will emphasize strategic vocabulary presented in the
selection.
After- Reading · Students discuss within their groups or think-pair-share the different
Tasks categories for each of the selected vocabulary words.
· If you use Newsela.com, you will be provided the different Lexiles for
differentiation.
Extensions
Based on Discovery Education’s S.O.S. lesson
Dump and Clump
Directions: Read the words in the Dumpster. Consider how these words are related and different. Then,
pull your words out of the dumpster and clump them into categories. Finally, assign your category labels
and on the back of your paper write a summary sentence describing each category.
The Dumpster
The Clumpster