11/23/09 - 11/30/09

Author and Reader Purpose

What is the text about? What is the purpose? Who is the audience? What is your purpose? Will this text help you? (3.1.1; 2.3.2)

Strategies: Predict; Reading Rate;

Involvement: highlight and question;

Visualize: sketch; Clarify: ideas/vocabulary;

Connect: self, class, world;

Question;

Evaluate

http://whatelse.pbworks.com/Reading-Strategies

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Focus: Characterization, Plot

11/23
Story: CHARLES (LOL)
Prediction
Characterization

11/24
Characterization -- how readers and writers understand it

11/25
Characterization -- how readers and writers understand it


11/30
CHARLES (LOL)
Prediction
Characterization

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EALR 1: The student understands and uses different skills and strategies to read.

1.4.3 Apply different reading rates to match text.

EALR 2: The student understands the meaning of what is read

2.1.7 Apply comprehension monitoring strategies for informational and technical materials, complex narratives, and expositions: determine importance and summarize text. W

Component 2.2 Understand and apply knowledge of text components to comprehend text.

2.2.2 Apply understanding of complex organizational features of printed text and electronic sources. W

Component 2.3 Expand comprehension by analyzing, interpreting, and synthesizing information and ideas in literary and informational text.

Component 3.2 Read to perform a task.

EALR 4: The student sets goals and evaluates progress to improve reading.