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Enduring understandings: are statements summarizing important ideas and core processes that are central to a discipline and have lasting value beyond the classroom. synthesize what students should understand—not just know or do—as a result of studying a particular content area.
Enduring understandings go beyond discrete facts or skills to focus on larger concepts, principles, or processes” (p. 10). So why should teachers spend the time to create essential understandings?
Use a powerful verb (see list of some possibilities on p.3) to connect them and you will have created an enduring understanding. Transform this into an essential question to drive the unit by using either “How” or “Why” in front of the enduring understanding.
Essential Questions: Enduring Understandings: What lies beneath the surface of this Reading for meaning often requires text, and how can I uncover it? imagining conversation with and questioning the author. How much must a text relate to me and my experience to be worth reading? Great literature provides rich and timeless insights into key ...
Ms. Harrington determines an enduring understanding (Step 1) based on grade level content-area frameworks. Ms. Harrington then develops clear learning outcomes (Step 2). She determines the assessment evidence (Step 3) students will produce to demonstrate mastery of these outcomes.
Reading expands understanding of the world, its people and oneself. Why do people read? What do people read? What are the benefits of reading? How does reading affect your life? Reading Strategies. Readers use strategies to construct meaning.
Reading Why read? What can we learn from print? How do reading and listening differ? What would happen if people couldn’t read? What do good readers sound like? Can a machine (e.g., scanner, robot) learn to read? Letters represent sounds. Letters can blend to make a single sound.
