E. Self-monitor reading in meaningful ways

1. self-question
2. reread (AL COS)
3. adjust speed (AL COS) /reading rate
4. use context clues (AL COS)
5. use prior knowledge and experience (AL COS) (SAT 10)
6. make connections to text, self, and world
7. use cueing systems (look right/sound right/make sense?)

Creating an Original Opera
In this lesson, students will use the GREAT PERFORMANCES and other web sites to learn about opera's dramatic and musical elements, and discover the similarities and differences between opera stories and students' own lives.

Memoir: The Stuff of Our Lives
In this unit students will explore the genre of memoir.  They will see that writers write about the ordinary happenings of their lives and that their own lives are packed with meaningful experiences that can form the basis of their own writing. 

Skimming and Scanning:  Using Riddles to Practice Fact Finding Online
The primary focus of this lesson is a teacher-directed activity during which students practice the important skills of skimming, scanning, and searching a preselected website to find answers to riddles.
 

Reading Clinic:  This site offers a reading strategy record sheet to document reading strategies a student uses during read alouds.

Reading Skills Profile:  Use these charts to help students self-evaluate their reading skills.

Performance Assessment for Reading:  This site offers assessment guides for independent reading.

Gigantic Learning with Giants:  Go colossally creative with these fun, brain-stretching fairytale activities

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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