Reading Strategies
Class
Candace Rydell
Utilizing the Reading Workshop model, our class will discover mentor texts together, practice vital reading skills and share their learning while building a reading strategy notebook for the year. Students are then free to practice their skills throughout the week at home with books they love, so no homework or grades! Class meets Mondays at noon in Room 304.
Reading Strategies Syllabus
2023-2024
Materials needed each week: composition book and PENCILS. If you would like to provide colored pencils, erasers, hi-lighters, Post-It notes, glue sticks in a pencil case, your child will have his/her own to use each week.
Mellow Yellow Education is the online platform used for this class. Visit www.mellowyelloweducation.com and create an account. There is a video you can watch at the first screen to assist in this process. Lesson topics for course are listed here. Assignments will not be graded but feedback will provided by instructor.
August
7. Week 1: How to select a “just right” book
14. Week 2: Sensory Details
21. Week 3: Mental Images
28. Week 4: Illustrations vs. Text
September
4-Labor Day, No class
11. Week 5: Making connections, text to self connections
18. Week 6: Text to text connections
25. Week 7: Text to world connections
October
2. Week 8: Answering Explicit questions
9. Week 9: Citing Text Evidence
16. Week 10: Think & Search
23. Week 11: Author & Me
30. Week 12: Inferencing w/ Pictures
November
6. Week 13: Inferencing w/Literature
13: Week 14: Inferencing w/Informational Text
January
8. Week 15:Making Predictions
15. Week 16: Fiction Summaries
22. Week 17: Nonfiction Summaries
29. Week 18: Synthesizing
February
5. Week 19: Summarize Text
12. Week 20: Describe Story Elements
19. Week 21: Inferencing
26. Week 22: Figurative Language
March
4. Week 23: Poetry
11-Spring Break, No class
18. Week 24: Point of View
25. Week 25: Analyzing Illustrations
April
1. Week 26: Comparing Books
8. Week 27: Write a Sequel
15. Week 28: Create a Graphic Novel
22. Week 29: Referring to a text to Answer Questions
29. Week 30: Summarizing
May
6. Week 31: Cause & Effect
13. Week 32: Text Structure (Last Day: Character Parade, Book Sharing)
Here is the class outline:
1. Week 1
Aug 7
Fantastic day learning how to select a book that's "just right" for you! Feel free to add color to page added today. Bring reading notebook and a pencil to class next week. Return your book if you borrowed one. |
2. Week 2
Aug 14
Keep reading outside of class. Practice the strategies we learn in class. See if you can be a detective in your reading and find sensory details. |
3. Week 4
Aug 28
Notice the information you learn from illustrations vs. text at home this week in your reading. Keep reading! No class Labor Day, September 4 |
4. Week 10
Oct 9
What fun we had with dads today! Thank you all for coming! Remember to read with dad the non-fiction passage pasted in your interactive notebook today about rocks. We will add to questions and answers next week. |
5. Week 15
Nov 13
Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year! See you all back in class on January 8 |
6. Week 18
Jan 22
A fluency page came home in your student's notebook today. Data shows reading a familiar passage repeatedly really improves a reader's fluency, speed, inflection, and confidence reading. There is a blank to read how many words your student completes daily in 1-minute increments. They were excited to start charting their progress! It literally only takes a minute, so help them succeed at home. Looking forward to seeing that progress. |
7. Week 21
Feb 12
A Hershey reading comprehension activity was glued into your student's composition book today (in front of the fiction summaries lesson). Encourage your student to complete questions. When reading fiction, the sentence "Somebody wanted but so, then..." is a great way to get them thinking about how to summarize the story quickly and easily. |
8. Week 24
Mar 6
Spring Break March 11-15 See you in class March 18 |