7th Grade Strategic Reading
Focus Reading Skills
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
Objectives By Trimester
Trimester 1
- Basic Reading Inventory (all students)
- LLI test prep unit 1
- Reading Strategy Review
- Reading Process review with short story unit
- LLI 4-6 weeks
Trimester 2
- Novel study
- Skill focus: Main Idea, Summary, Inference, supporting claims with text evidence, theme
- LLI test prep unit 2
- BRI (by end of January)
- LLI 4-6 weeks (January- February)
Trimester 3
- Close Reading using LLI (Within, Beyond, About text)
- Novel study- (end February- March)
- Skill focus: Figurative language, word choice, form and structure, author’s purpose
- LLI (April-May)
- Reader’s Workshop- choice books/reader’s conferences
- Skill Focus: Compare/Contrast multiple titles, connections with historical and current events