A. Use a range of strategies, including drawing conclusions such as opinions about characters based on their actions and summarize passages, to comprehend fifth-grade literary/recreational materials in a variety of genre (AL COS 2)

1. Apply a variety of strategies, daily in reading o, with, and by

1. determine sequence of events (AL COS) (SAT 10)
2. compare and contrast, categorize, or classify (AL COS) (SAT 10)
3. distinguish fiction and nonfiction (AL COS)
4. use sentence structure and context (AL COS) (SAT 10)
5. use prior knowledge and experience to interpret text (AL COS)
6. skim passages (AL COS)
7. infer motive from character traits and /or behaviors (AL COS) (SAT 10)
8. draw conclusions (AL COS)
9. summarize passages and paraphrase (AL COS)
10. identify main idea and supporting details (AL COS) (SAT 10)
11. determine cause and effect (AL COS) SAT 10)
12. distinguish fact and opinion (AL COS) (SAT 10)
13. make generalizations and evaluate/make judgments
14. synthesize
15. preview and predict based on text (SAT 10)
16. determine explicit and implied meaning (SAT 10)
17. identify author's purpose and intended audience, assumptions, or viewpoint (AL COS) (SAT 10)
18. use knowledge of word meaning
19. identify characteristics of a variety of genre

2. Compare and contrast cultural similarities and differences of the world through exposure to multi-cultural literature using a variety of genre

3. Use cueing systems at current independent and instructional level

1. semantics (use context and prior knowledge)
2. syntactic (use the structure of language)
3. graphophonic (recognize cues provided by print)
4. schematic (connect events in a story to specific life experiences)

4. Describe how events, places and characters encountered in written, spoken, and visual words reflect human experiences and influence he thinking of the reader, viewer, or listener (access schematic)

1. text-to-self
2. text-to-text
3. text-to-world

5. Apply strategies of a skillful listener to gain meaning 

Sequential Directions
Students learn the importance of precise directions when drawing a map or giving directions to a specific location

Let Us Do Your Selling
Students will read to distinguish between valid/faulty generalizations; fact and opinion.

Fables
Use many fables to help students draw conclusions.

Peace Poems and Picasso Doves:  Literature, Art, Technology, and Poetry
Teachers and students use think-aloud strategies as they read literature, compose poems, and create artwork related to the theme of peace.

How to Write a Girls to the Rescue Story
The main challenge in writing a story of this type is to create a story that showcases a main character who is clever and courageous (rather than witless and helpless).

TeachingTips.com: Reading:  This is an article on reading comprehension and includes strategies for students to do before, during and after reading a book.

The Teachers Corner: Novel Benchmarks:  This site offers an idea for sequencing and summarizing chapters novels.

Reading Comprehension:  Use these sample stories to help students improve their reading comprehension. Includes questions at the end of each story. The reading material targets upper elementary students and above.

Reading Plans:  This site offers several reading activities.

You are What You Say: Personality Profiles:  Students will develop personality profiles by analyzing the quotes of a character, historical figure, present day figure, etc.

Interview Book Characters:  Use this activity to understand and "become" a character from a book.

Reader's Theater Editions:  This site offers scripts adapted from stories written by Aaron Shepard and others -- mostly humor, fantasy, and world tales from a variety of cultures.  

Celebrate Children's Authors:  This is a wonderful site that has links to many common children's authors.

Holes Word Mover:  Use this interactive tool to create a poem using words from Holes.  Drag words from the poem out to the right to create a poem of your own. This site requires Shockwave 10 by Macromedia, Inc.

Oh, the Places He Went:  This site offers interdisciplinary activities based on a biography about Dr. Seuss.

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

E/B: Create a pictorial main idea diagram as you verbalize the parts. Draw the diagram both ways, with the details "adding up" to the main idea and vice versa. Have students point to the main idea in both diagrams; D, E: Have small groups review a topic they've learned in class (i.e. animal adaptations). Model creating a main idea diagram for one of the animals in its habitat. Then have students make a main idea diagram about another animal and its habitat. Invite groups to share their diagrams with the class.
E/B: Identify basic features of text, including title, table of contents, and chapter headings, by pointing, gesturing, or using simple spoken or written sentences; D: Identify features of text such as title, table of contents, chapter headings, supporting illustrations, glossaries, and indexes; E: Locate features of text, including format, diagrams, charts, and illustrations, and indexes, and identify their purpose.
E/B: Using nonverbal methods (i.e. pictures, charts, graphic organizers) or key words or phrases, identify the main idea of a story read aloud.
E/B: Relate text to one's own prior knowledge and experiences and express nonverbally (i.e. pictures, charts, graphic organizers), with key words or phrases (spoken or written); D: Relate text to one's own prior knowledge and experiences and express with simple spoken and written sentences.
E/B: Identify basic sequence of events in stories read aloud nonverbally (i.e. pictures, charts, graphic organizers) or using key words or phrases; D: Identify the sequence of events using spoken or written sentences.
E/B: Identify examples of fact and opinion in familiar texts and express with simple spoken or written sentences; D: Read brief literature and content-area texts to identify examples of facts and opinions; E: Identify facts, supported inferences, and opinions in text.
D: Recognize main ideas and supporting details asserted in a given text; E: Identify the main idea, make predictions, and support with details using simple spoken and written sentences.
E: Use the main ideas and illustrations of texts to draw inferences and conclusions.

 

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