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College and Career Readiness Standards
for Reading»
Key Ideas and Details: Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze
their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
Organizing for Research and for Writing Requires the Ability to:
• Examine Ideas and Details
• Categorize them by Similarities and/or Differences
• Identify a Structure of Presentation
• Research for Additional Facts, Quotes, and Anecdotes of Support
It is a clear understanding of all of the steps that are required. Failing to
be able to complete these higher level thinking steps are what cause
students to fail more often than the writing of the paper itself.
Read&Write for Windows provides a variety of tools to help in this process.
This lesson will provide opportunity for students to try four of the tools,
experience how they function and learn their various purposes.
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Highlighting and
Research
Help for Categories
and Questions
Headings, Subheadings and
Numbered Points can help
generate Questions in Categories
for locating additional
information.
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Use the Fact Finder to Find More Info
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Fact Folder to Categorize and Store
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Export Fact to Word for Use in Writing
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Fact Mapper can Visually Organize by Category
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Choosing Visual Cues/Symbols uses Higher Level Thinking
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Practice with the Study Skill Highlighters, the Fact Finder, the Fact Folder and
the Fact Mapper will help to make it easier to collect information by category.
Using the Read&Write v10 GOLD Training Guide
Using Study Skills Exercise 1 Collecting Text for Your Studies
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Using the Fact Finder Exercise 1 Using the default search engine
Exercise 2 Adding search engines
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Using the Fact Folder Exercise 1 Adding text facts
Exercise 2 Adding image facts
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Exercise 3 Adding URLs and documents
65
Exercise 4 Changing fact details and properties
Exercise 5 Exporting facts from the Fact Folder 67
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Using the Fact Mapper Exercise 1 Creating fact maps
Exercise 2 Opening fact maps & adding notes to facts
Exercise 3 Using the Image Library
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Exercise 4 Linking facts
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Exercise 5 Changing how a fact map is displayed
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Exercise 6 Brainstorming
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Exercise 7 Exporting fact maps
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