Reading
Essential Questions:
Essential Questions:
- Why read?
- What do effective readers do?
COURSE COMPETENCIES:
COURSE COMPETENCIES:
- Students will demonstrate the ability to read, comprehend, analyze, and critique a variety of increasingly complex literary texts.
- Students will demonstrate the ability to read, comprehend, analyze, and critique a variety of increasingly complex informational texts
Reading Strategies
Reading Strategies
1. Summarize:
- What is happening?
- What is your book about?
2. Make Connections (text to self, text to text, text to world):
- Pick ONE of these to address. Explain the connection
- How can you relate to the book, an event or character (text to self)?
- How does this book, an event or character relate to another text (text to text)?
- How does this book relate to a world event (text to world)?
3. Ask Questions:
- What is confusing?
- What do I not understand?
4. Choose Themes:
- What are the themes or issues (world peace, friendship, good vs. evil, family, overcoming odds, achievement, etc.)?
- What lessons or ideas was the writer trying to communicate to the reader?
- What is the message?
- Why are these important?
5. Identify an Emotional Response:
- Identify a specific part of the book that caused an emotional response and explain how it made you feel and why (something confusing, disturbing, humorous, etc.).
6. Analyze a Quote:
- What is a thought-provoking quote (excerpt from the book)?
- Copy the excerpt with the page number and who said it (this could be the narrator)
- Explain why the excerpt stood out for you.
7. Critique:
- Did you like or dislike the book? Explain.
- Would you recommend this book to someone else? Why or why not?
ADMISSIONS TICKET:
ADMISSIONS TICKET:
Admissions Ticket Template
Admissions Ticket Template
Example Admissions Ticket:
Example Admissions Ticket:
Rubrics:
Rubrics:
Whole School Literature Circle Rubric
READING RESOURCES:
READING RESOURCES:
Blogs:
Blogs:
Newspapers:
Newspapers:
Magazines:
Magazines:
Speeches:
Speeches:
Reading Logs
Reading Logs
Big Buddies
Big Buddies
Big Buddies Reminders - reading a story
Newsela
Newsela
Newsela Magnet Article - class model
Short Stories
Short Stories
"The Scarlet Ibis"
"The Scarlet Ibis"
Superhero
Superhero
Film:
Film:
Remember the Titans
Remember the Titans
My All American
My All American
Novel:
Novel:
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
Summative Assessment:
Summative Assessment:
Visual Texts
Visual Texts
Summer Reading:
Summer Reading: