Lessons tagged with "reading+strategies"

This vocabulary lesson covers how to sort words into categories. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. Teachers should model what markers to use during Skill Development/Guided Practice for the categories (i.e., writing the number or the word for each object). Flashcards for Concept Development CFU and Skill Development are available for this lesson. Extra resources and activities are provided as well.

This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on reading word families. The lesson includes research-based strategies and questions that help prepare students for assessments. This lesson does not include any writing on the students part. It focuses on practicing the reading of word families through initial sounds, word families, and blending the whole word. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This reading comprehension lesson practices answering specific questions about the text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. This lesson contains who, when, and where questions. In Skill Development/Guided Practice, students are asked to tell which sentence they found the answer in. This prepares students to cite textual evidence.

This reading comprehension lesson focuses on retelling stories and details that express the central message or lesson. The lesson is intended to be taught as a read-aloud, with Independent Practice and Periodic Reviews to be teacher guided. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments.

This reading comprehension lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, with prompting and support, students will identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.

This reading literature lesson covers how to determine the central message in a narrative or literary text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will read the text, identify a character, and then identify a clue word that shows the character learned a lesson about life. What the character learns is then identified as the central message.

This reading informational lesson covers the answering of who, when, and where questions about the informational text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will read the text, answer questions about key details, and verify the answer by referring back to the text.

This reading comprehension lesson focuses on interpreting information from charts. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students learn the organization of a chart and how to interpret the information provided. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This reading literature lesson covers the answering of who, when, and where questions about narrative or literary text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will read the text, answer questions about the characters and setting, and verify the answer by referring back to the text.

This Common Core reading informational text lesson focuses on determining the main topic in a text. In this lesson, students will determine the main topic of a text and then the key details that support that main topic. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after the Common Core assessment items.

This reading informational lesson covers identifying the main purpose of the informational text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will read the text, and then determine if the purpose of the text is to answer, explain, or describe.

This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on the use of syllabication rules. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students use syllabication rules to divide words into syllables. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This language lesson requires students to distinguish between words with shades of meaning. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will practice using content-specific vocabulary and distinguishing between closely related words (e.g. thin, slender, skinny).

This language lesson requires students to distinguish between language that is written and spoken. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will practice and compare the formal and informal uses of spoken and written English.

This reading informational text lesson focuses on reading comprehension. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. (Also aligns with 3.RI.1.)

This reading information text lesson focuses on reading and interpreting. In this lesson, students will answer where, when, and how questions about a text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. (Also aligns with 3.RI.1.)

This reading informational text lesson focuses on determining the main idea in a text. In this lesson, students will determine the main idea of a text and then the key details that support that main idea. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. (Also aligns with 3.RI.1 and 3.RI.10.)

This reading informational text lesson that describes the sequence relationships between ideas in a text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will identify clue words (such as, first, last, next, etc.) and then answer questions that determine the relationship between ideas.

The language lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will identify clues within the sentence that help them determine the proper use of words that show time (such as during, after, etc.) and words that show location (such as beneath, against, etc.).

This literary response and analysis lesson focuses on comprehending plots of fables. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students use the characteristics of fables (decision making, a moral) to comprehend the plot of fables. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This language lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will identify and use appropriate words and vocabulary based on subject matter and context.

This reading foundational skills lesson requires students to decode multisyllabic words. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn four syllable patterns, and then decode words and read them aloud. This lesson addresses open and closed syllables, multisyllable words with affixes (prefixes: pre-, dis-; suffixes: -er, -ing, -ful), vowel teams (ee, ea, oo, ie, etc.), and r-controlled words. Vowel-silent e (VCe), consonant blends (bl, tl, tr, fl, dl, nt, nd), and digraphs (ch, th) will be addressed in a separate lesson.

This reading comprehension lesson focuses on distinguishing between cause and effect. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students use clues from the text they read, as well as prior knowledge to determine which event is the cause and which is the effect. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This literary response and analysis lesson focuses on using symbolism to interpret an author's meaning. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students are given the symbol used in a text and then asked to read the text three times to determine the meaning of the symbol. They are asked to identify reasons in the text to support their interpretation of the symbol and asked to explain how and why the symbol is used. In addition to the lesson, there are five pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This integration of knowledge and ideas reading lesson practices answering specific questions about a text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. This lesson contains who, when, and where questions. In Skill Development/Guided Practice, students are asked to tell which sentence they found the answer in. This prepares students to cite textual evidence.

This phonics lesson covers how to sort words into categories. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. Blending is presented as word play activities in Guided Practice 1 and beyond. This lesson should focus on students’ phonological awareness, meaning they should only be listening to the words not reading them. The terms onsets and rimes were purposely not used in this lesson due to the difficulty level for kindergartners.

This phonics lesson gives students the opportunity to count syllables. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. For this lesson, students will need to be familiar with short and long vowel sounds.

This craft and structure lesson is focused on identifying parts of a book. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will identify the different parts of a book, including author and/or illustrator. In addition to the lesson, there are multiple pages of independent practice and review. Consider incorporating actual books from around the classroom. This will give you more of a variety of what the students will see.