Look for: Students describing the approach to growing f…

14.A Critically read scientific texts to obtain information about how different ways to grow food (cause) can have a positive impact on populations in ecosystems (effect).

• Students describing the approach to growing food that they read about and how it differs from large-scale monocrop farming.
• Students explaining how their approach to growing food supports populations in ecosystems, either orangutans specifically or other insects, birds, and mammals.
• Students summarizing from the text the main farming approaches in each case: (1) planting multiple crops, (2) setting aside and protecting intact forested areas, and (3) cultivating food from the forest.
• Students linking each approach to growing food to an effect on a forest population.

(1) If students struggle to obtain information from their reading, have them do paired reading. Have both students read one paragraph of text silently. Next, have one student summarize the main ideas. The partner must then agree or disagree and say why. Once students agree, each partner takes a turn identifying details that support the main idea. Then they read the next section quietly. (2) If members of a group struggle to identify their approach to growing food, pair them with another group who read about the same approach and have them compare notes. Prompt them for evidence from the text to support their summaries.