Our i-Ready ELA typical growth is our WIG (Widely Important Goal ) assessments. In class, we are currently working on Using Key Details to identify the Theme of a story.
With Scholastic, we work with multiple examples of these genres and model annotating (adding notes to the side of the text)and analyzing (breaking apart, looking deeper) how to number paragraphs, identify the meaning unknown words using context clues, identify characters, determine character traits, setting, and events that take place in the story and identify the theme for the students to fully comprehend the stories. With these strategies and skills, students should be able to answer questions about the text. We also send home a short story everyday for homework with questions about the text for students to practice.