BSIP
Building Students Intellectual Potential in Reading
encouraging reading for pleasure and information on a regular basis
My name is Delores Connors and I will be your child's BSIP ELA reading teacher. B.S.I.P. stands for Basic Skills Improvement Program, but I like to use the acronym Building Students Intellectual Potential in Reading. In this course, we will be reading a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts. The art of questioning will be our theme and our focus.
Reading FICTION
The desired outcome of reading instruction is comprehension.
Analyzing characters helps students develop key reading strategies such as drawing inferences, making predictions, and summarizing.
Asking questions about the characters or the authors or what they learn about society helps the reader grow.
Students will analyze characters using direct instruction, graphic organizers, think-alouds and modeling
Reading Non-Fiction
The desired outcome of reading instruction is comprehension.
Analyzing characters helps students develop key reading strategies such as drawing inferences, making predictions, and summarizing.
Asking questions about the characters or the authors or what they learn about society helps the reader grow.
Students will analyze characters using direct instruction, graphic organizers, think-alouds and modeling
WHAT WE ARE READING and we have QUESTIONS!
LONG WAY DOWN
by Jason Reynolds
We have questions for the author: UNDERSTANDING AUTHOR'S CRAFT
We have questions for the characters: UNDERSTANDING CHARACTER ANALYSIS
We have questions for society: I WONDER WHY?
Asking questions before, during, and after reading is an important critical thinking skill when reading both fiction and informational text.
Resources
Meet Jason Reynolds
What Mrs. Connors is thinking about Reading
Sites
Meet Jason Reynolds www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuXNsJvNaFs
What Mrs. Connors is thinking about reading in our community
