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Key Ideas and Details: Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

College and Career Readiness Standards for Reading»

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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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

High School Informational TextPractice 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 Study Skills Exercise 1 Collecting Text for Your Studies 95

Using the Fact Finder Exercise 1 Using the default search engine 62Exercise 2 Adding search engines 63

Using the Fact Folder Exercise 1 Adding text facts 64Exercise 2 Adding image facts 65Exercise 3 Adding URLs and documents 65Exercise 4 Changing fact details and properties 67Exercise 5 Exporting facts from the Fact Folder 67

Using the Fact Mapper Exercise 1 Creating fact maps 70Exercise 2 Opening fact maps & adding notes to facts 72Exercise 3 Using the Image Library 73Exercise 4 Linking facts 75Exercise 5 Changing how a fact map is displayed 75Exercise 6 Brainstorming 76Exercise 7 Exporting fact maps 78

Using the Read&Write v10 GOLD Training Guide