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Scaffolded Use of a Dialectical JournalExample: Informational TextThe article, “Bats,” explores the idea that bats are misunderstood.Paragraph 1: “Direct quote”Paragraph 1: Student responseThe author states that “______________________________________________________________________________________________________________.”Paragraph 2: “Direct quote”“______________________________________________________________________________________________________”is an important point.From this quote, I learned ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.Paragraph 2: Student responseThis quote explains __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.Paragraphs 3 & 4: “Direct quote”Bats are unique because “______________________________________________________________________________________________________________.”Paragraph 5: “Direct quote”The text states that “______________________________________________________________________________________________________________.”Paragraphs 6 & 7: “Direct quote”The article closes by claiming “__________________________________________________________________________________________________________.”Paragraphs 3 & 4: Student responseThis detail helps me to understand ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.Paragraph 5: Student responseThis information made clear to me ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.Paragraphs 6 & 7: Student responseReading this made me realize ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________.Constructing Meaning: Explicit Language for Content InstructionLevy & Dutro © 2008/E.L.Achieve

Scaffolded Use of a Dialectical JournalExample: Informational TextThe article, “Bats,” explores the idea that bats are misunderstood.Paragraph 1: “Direct quote”Paragraph 1: Student responseThe author states that bats “areamong the least understood andleast appreciated of all animals.”From this quote, I learned that I am not theonly one who thinks bats are ugly anduseless.Paragraph 2: “Direct quote”“The bones in a bat wing are muchlike those in arms and humanhands” is an important point.Paragraph 2: Student responseThis quote explains one way that bats aremisunderstood. They are more likehumans than we realize.Paragraphs 3 & 4: “Direct quote”Bats are unique because “they do notuse their vision to maneuver in theParagraphs 3 & 4: Student responseThis detail helps me to understand whybats are able to get around in the dark.dark but use a process calledecholocation.”Paragraph 5: “Direct quote”The text states that “if it were not forbats, we might not have peaches,bananas, mangoes, guavas, figs orParagraph 5: Student responseThis information made clear to me howimportant bats are because mangoes aremy favorite fruit.dates.”Paragraphs 6 & 7: “Direct quote”The article closes by claiming that bats’“unususal physical features shouldnot lead us to overestimate theirharm or underestimate their value.”Paragraphs 6 & 7: Student responseReading this made me realize that bats aremore important and less threateningthan I thought. I will think of batsdifferently now.Constructing Meaning: Explicit Language for Content InstructionLevy & Dutro © 2008/E.L.Achieve