Teacher Commentary
Complete a Think Aloud with Text D: “National Security Assessment of the Situation in Iran” to demonstrate how you select and evaluate information from text to determine where it goes on the notetaker. As you think aloud, highlight text features that indicate what kind of information is featured (ex. “the situation” in the title means things as they stand, which logically might provide reasons for change). Sourcing and use of historical reasoning are also important to interpreting the text. Take a moment after you have completed a portion of the notetaker. Make sure to cite Text D for your note as students will be adding information from other documents. Ask students in pairs to discuss how you decided what information to write down. You can add these summarizing and identifying key idea strategies to the “Strategies we use to make sense of text” list.