Reading Strategy Review: Consider asking students to review the Reading Strategies list and identify what reading strategies that they have used in identifying evidence in the Homeostasis and MRSA investigations. A quick share-‐out could help level the playing field before the task begins.
Scope and Scale: Text 4-‐6 provide evidence about how widespread MRSA is.
Mechanism: Texts 1-‐3 provide evidence for the mechanism of transmission and spread.
Re-‐reading with a new purpose: Frame the new purpose for the re-‐reading. In our first read of texts
1-‐3, we were just getting into the investigation. Now we have a new lens for considering the those texts: what can learn about how widely MRSA spread and HOW MRSA is transmitted and spread. When we revisit/re-‐read a text with new questions in mind, we can potentially learn a lot more because our thinking will be different.
Scaffold Stamina & Confidence Development: Consider chunking this task into 2 or 3 rounds of reading, note-‐making and talking with the first round requiring less stamina and the later rounds requiring more. For instance, focus on just text 4. Go through the Individual think write, pair, or small group discussion and whole group discussion only using text. Repeat with texts 5 &6. Finally repeat with texts 1-‐3.