Reading
This year we will be working on reading strategies and skills such as:
- Retelling
- Using Schema/Making Connections
- Visualizing
- Wondering/Questioning
- Making Inferences
- Determining important ideas
- Understanding Text Structure
- Summarizing
- Synthesizing
- Answering RACE questions
- Finding Evidence
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Programs Used
Fundations
A structured literacy approach to foundational skills grounded in the Science of Reading contains the instructional topics and principles critical for foundational reading and writing success. Fundations’ unique and multisensory approach to instruction makes learning efficient and effective while maximizing valuable classroom time. Instruction and practice occur in a systematic, cumulative, explicit, diagnostic, and integrated manner, allowing students to experience greater gains in the skills required for independent reading and spelling.
Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI)
The Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Interventionis a powerful, short-term intervention, that provides daily, intensive, small-group instruction, which supplements classroom literacy teaching. LLI turns struggling readers into successful readers with engaging leveled books and fast-paced, systematically designed lessons.
Achieve 3000
Achieve3000® is a supplemental online literacy program that provides nonfiction reading content to students in grades preK–12 and focuses on building phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, reading comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills.
