This is a high school reading comprehension lesson plan built for exploring Radicalization and building reading comprehension skills at the same time. It comes with all the activities and tasks you’ll need to be successful:
- Gripping Non-Fiction Text: A captivating reading passage that ignites curiosity and critical thinking about radicalization.
- Scaffolded Comprehension Activities: Students make sense of the reading through a range of engaging activities that supercharge their reading comprehension skills. They’ll go from reading for main idea, to discovering key details and end with critical thinking questions. Perfect practice for IELTS, TOEFL, and other langauge proficiency test preps!
- Main idea reading questions
- Detailed reading questions
- Critical Thinking Questions
- Cause and Effect language tasks and activities
- Metaphor practice activities
- Differentiation Done-For-You: These activities and reading tasks cater to diverse learning styles and abilities, ensuring every student understands can can participate. The lesson plan for the teacher compliments the student worksheets and helps keep the learning happening for everyone!
- ESL/ELL Friendly: Clear language and vocabulary building exercises make it perfect for English learners, adult learners, and emerging bilinguals.
This is an excellent addition to any media literacy unit, and you can use it for high school ELL and ESL students or in any type of literacy center for upper high school. It is great for supplementary lessons or homework assignments. With the reading comprehension activities built into the design of the pre-planned lesson, it works with little prep and can be used as sub plans. You can also use it online for distance learning!
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KEY FEATURES OF THE RESOURCE
✅ Get Your Planning Time Back: No need to plan using this package! When you purchase this Reading Comprehension lesson on Radicalization, you’ll get a complete lesson plan, with answer keys, that scaffolds the learning into easy-to-understand parts. The topic is presented in a way that maximizes engagement while building reading skills. The planning of this reading lesson is already done!
✅ Reading Comprehension Strategies that Work: The secret to this non-fiction reading passage is in how it is presented. Students unpack the topic of becoming radicalized in a way that reduces the stress of more advanced academic reading. The activities guide them towards better understanding of how echo chambers work and the processes that lead to alienation. All this while training their reading skills organically!
✅ A Passage on Radicalization Students can Understand: Most reading passages on Radicalization are hard for younger persons to understand, but not this one! The text uses simplified language and metaphor to shed light into the process of alienation and how someone may become radicalized. The structure makes it easy for readers to become immersed in the topic without having to worry about being lost in complexity.
✅ Follow Up Learning with a Writing Assignment: Not only will students be reading about Radicalization; they’ll be writing about it. At the end of the lesson, as an extension activity, students have the opportunity to show what they learned about the topic by writing a cause and effect essay. They’ll be helped by a graphic organizer that shows them how to structure excellent cause and effect paragraphs. It’s a great way to follow up the learning and have students link what they learned during the lesson with their own ideas.
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The package includes a PDF file that can be opened using your preferred PDF reader. Along with the student workbook pages, you’ll also get a full lesson plan with resource notes and answer keys. This resource can be used in both your physical classroom or in any online learning environment. You’ll get access to the Google Slides® for going paperless as well.
Worksheet pages for structuring a cause and effect essay are also included. For more comprehensive material on writing cause and effect essays, see my How to Write a Cause and Effect Essay.
*DISCLAIMER: This lesson explores the concept of radicalization and its causes, which can be a sensitive topic for some. It aims to provide students with the tools to critically analyze complex social issues.
Important Notes:
- This resource is for educational purposes only.
- The contents within does not target or endorse any specific religious or political ideology.
- The goal is to promote critical thinking skills and understanding of the factors that can contribute to radicalization in its various forms.
- It is important to foster respectful dialogue and avoid generalizations about entire groups of people.
Open Communication:
ESL Lifeline encourages open communication throughout this lesson. If students have any questions or concerns, encourage them to discuss them privately with you after the lesson.
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Terms of Use:
This resource was created by Landon S. Seigler of ESL Lifeline, all rights are reserved. The original purchaser is permitted to use it for a single class only. Teachers have the authorization to share this product with their students (and parents) through email, Google Classroom, or the Internet, as long as the site is password protected. Distribution to your own students is allowed, but uploading it to the Internet for public access and download is not permitted.
**If you wish to use this resource for multiple classrooms or share it with fellow educators, please purchase additional licenses.Your adherence to these usage terms is greatly appreciated.
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