Welcome to Reading Enrichment!

COURSE INFORMATION

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. 

Curriculum

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)