7th Grade Strategic Reading

Focus Reading Skills

  • Using the reading process
    • Actively reading before, during, and after
  • Finding the Main Idea
  • Decoding vocabulary using roots, prefixes, and suffixes
  • Close Reading for a purpose
  • Annotating Text
  • Supporting answers with text evidence
  • Writing cohesive responses to literary response questions
  • Examine the structure of text and the author's purpose
  • Compare and contrast related text

Objectives By Trimester

Trimester 1

  1. Basic Reading Inventory (all students)
  2. LLI test prep unit 1
  3. Reading Strategy Review
  4. Reading Process review with short story unit
  5. LLI 4-6 weeks

Trimester 2

  1. Novel study
    1. Skill focus: Main Idea, Summary, Inference, supporting claims with text evidence, theme
  2. LLI test prep unit 2
  3. BRI (by end of January)
  4. LLI 4-6 weeks (January- February)

Trimester 3

  1. Close Reading using LLI (Within, Beyond, About text)
  2. Novel study- (end February- March)
    1. Skill focus: Figurative language, word choice, form and structure, author’s purpose
  3. LLI (April-May)
  4. Reader’s Workshop- choice books/reader’s conferences
    1. Skill Focus: Compare/Contrast multiple titles, connections with historical and current events