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To start of the year we will be opening with the Super 8 reading strategies! Also, this class will be focusing solely on Non-fiction text. Below is a list of topics we will be discussing over the next few week.
- Super 8 Reading Strategies to build comprehension and become better readers of non-fiction work.
- Newsela is a resource we will use to annotate and "talk to the text" using the Super 6 strategies
- TDA Prep
Units
- Brain Science
- Lit Circle: Perseverance in the face of adversity
- Refugee Unit
- Bot building and written programming instruction
- Science Fair Enrichment (optional)
- What are We Eating?
Books/Research material may include
- Phineas Gage by John Fleischman
- A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
- All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Braggs
- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
- Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
- Che Guevara: You Win or You Die by Stuart A. Kallen
- Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
- My Thirteenth Winter by Samantha Abeel
- Outcasts United by Warren St. John
- The Boy who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
- Where am I Eating? By Kelsey Timmerman
- A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink
- NewsELA.com
- Commonlit.org
- Student Self-Selected Titles
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