Dillon worked on close reading activities during our session today. He read paired passages on whether children should be paid for doing chores around the home. Each passage was read 3 times, once silently and twice orally. He underlined key ideas in each paragraph. Next, he responded to questions that required him to get the answers directly from the text. He practiced using the sentence starters for evidence based questions such as: "The author stated...", "According to the text..." and "Based on what I read..." . At our next session, Dillon will use these 2 passages to compare and contrast the two passages and to write an opinion paragraph.