Reading

At D39C students are engaged in reading for authentic purposes while being challenged to grow as readers. Instructional design focuses on the principles of student choice, voice, and literacy skills. Reading is integrated into all subject areas, instead of treated as a separate block of the school day. Paying attention to the interests and passions of our students, we foster a love of reading in every student. Literacy is part of everything we do in the real world and everything we do in school.

Early Reading Literacy

Upper Level Reading Literacy

Fluency

    • reading with purpose and understanding

    • reading with accuracy, appropriate rate, expression

Vocabulary

    • phonics and word analysis skills

    • accurately read multisyllabic words

    • content vocabulary

    • prefixes/suffixes, roots

Reading Literature

    • Analyze characters, plot development, setting

    • Determine central ideas or themes

    • Text structure

    • Point of view

    • Compare and contrast texts

    • Comprehension, literal and interpretive

Informational Texts

    • Make logical inferences

    • Main ideas, key details

    • Text structure

    • Compare and contrast accounts of same event

    • Interpret graphs, charts, maps, etc.

    • Understand reasons and evidence

    • Integrate information from several texts

Phonemic Awareness

    • rhyming

    • alliteration

    • segmenting words (syllables, onset- rime, & individual phonemes)

    • blending words (syllables, onset- rime & individual phonemes)

    • phoneme matching, isolating, deletion, manipulation

Phonics

    • alphabet knowledge (letter recognition, letter-sound correspondence)

    • decoding

    • encoding

    • word study (spelling patterns)

    • high frequency words

    • morpheme structures (base word + ending)

Concepts of Print

    • tracking print

    • book orientation for English

    • text features

Fluency

    • automatic word recognition

    • oral reading

    • read smoother with expression

    • chunking text, phrases

    • read faster with accuracy

Vocabulary

    • categorize words

    • content vocabulary

    • word analysis

    • language development

    • synonyms, antonyms, homophones

Comprehension

    • sequencing story

    • predicting

    • retelling

    • literal comprehension

    • inferential comprehension

    • story elements

    • compare & contrast

    • cause & effect

Reading Instruction: What is Currently Happening in Schools