high school course outline - Long Beach Unified School District

Strategies for Success 9
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Unit 16:
Research Skills
114. Use email to clarify questions and to communicate with their General Education Teachers.
115. Identify research skills and people and places to find research.
116. Identify the parts of speech, read the definition(s), example sentences and identify other forms of
the entry word from a dictionary and answer questions about the meaning of the entry word
117. Select the best definition from a word entry in a dictionary
118. Use the World Wide Web to locate places, animals, events, and record specific information about
those.
Unit 17:
Unit 18:
Comprehension (used as a resource)
Study Plans
119. Analyze current home study
120. Create a home study plan
121. Implement and use the home study plan
122. Create a school study plan
123. Brainstorm and collect needed materials
124. Ask core teachers the best way to study for upcoming tests
Unit 19: Writing (used as a resource)
125. Use with strategies to analyze a writing task.
126. Apply critical reading strategies to analyze task and documents.
127. Apply strategies to use before, during and after completing a writing task.
OUTLINE OF CONTENT AND SUGGESTED TIME ALLOTMENT:
Suggested Daily Schedule
Strategies for Success study skills content should be taught each day that the students meet. Depending
on the site schedule (period or block), study skills should be taught for a minimum of 20 minutes per
period or 40 minutes per block.
55-minute Period
Strategies for Success*
20 min.
Content Support
35 min.
Includes direct instruction, modeling,
guided practice, checking for understanding
and independent practice. Teachers will be
pre-teaching; re-teaching and reviewing
concepts, text, and/or skills learned in
academic classes.
90-minute Block
Strategies for Success*
40 min.
Content Support
50 min.
Includes direct instruction, modeling,
guided practice, checking for understanding and
independent practice. Teachers will be preteaching;
re-teaching and reviewing concepts,
text, and/or skills learned in academic classes.
The following outline shows skills that should be addressed during the study skills portion of the course.
Once content has been taught, teachers should continue to integrate or spiral instruction and monitor
effective application throughout the entire year.