B. Select appropriate reading strategy in a given situation (SAT 10)
 

Using the Prediction Strategy to Set Purposes for Reading
After modeling and guided practice, students will use the strategy and document results in a journal.

Be a Reading Detective
Finding similarities and differences in ideas.  This lesson includes an interactive Venn diagram

Cruise the News
Make students aware of the different components of the newspaper and how it can reinforce various learned skills.
 

Graphic Organizers by Scholastic:  Here you will find many types of graphic organizers for literary elements.

Suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs):
(E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding) 

E/B: Create pictures, lists, charts, and graphic organizers to illustrate characteristics of fictional short stories.
E/B: Demonstrate the sequence of events from an illustratively supported short story and express nonverbally (i.e. pictures, lists, tables, graphic organizers) or with one or two word responses.
E/B: Respond to orally presented, simple, factual questions about an illustratively supported short story and express nonverbally (i.e. pictures, lists, tables, graphic organizers) or with one-to-two-word responses, simple spoken or written sentences.
E/B, D: Respond to simple factual questions about simple literature and express with simple spoken or written sentences.
E/B: Identify key characters in a short illustrated story nonverbally (i.e. pictures, lists, tables, graphic organizers) or with one or two word responses, or simple spoken or written sentences; D: Identify key characters in simple literature with simple spoken and written sentences.
E/B: Distinguish between fantasies, legends, and fairy tales when read aloud by using simple spoken sentences; D: Read different and simple literature (fantasies, fables, myths, legends, fairy tales) and orally identify each genre and its basic qualities with simple spoken and written sentences; E: Describe most characteristics of fantasies, fables, myths, legends, and fairy tales.
E: Identify the main events of a plot and the impact of each event on the plot.
E: Identify actions of characters in fiction and relate to the plot or theme.
E: Identify and generally define figurative language, including similes, metaphors, hyperbole, and personification.
 

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