Reading Enrichment will provide students with instruction of strategies for improving their reading and writing skills. Depending on the needs of individual students, instruction will include decoding, fluency, comprehension, active-reading, and note-taking strategies. Students will write daily, increasing their comfort with grammar and spelling conventions.
Unit 1.1: Stand Up For Yourself
Texts
The Skin I’m In (Flake)
Middle School Confidential: Be Confident in Who You Are (Fox)
Local News (Soto)
Unit 1.2: What Makes a Family?
Texts
Locomotion (Woodson)
How to Eat a Poem (Ed. by The American Poetry & Literacy Project and The Academy of American Poets)
Foster Families (Poole)
Local News (Soto) *Also in Unit 1
Unit 1.3: Disaster Strikes!
Texts
Ninth Ward (Rhodes)
Hurricane Katrina – True Books (Benoit)
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