New Word Inventory
Grades 6-8
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Lesson Targets:
  • Students will apply fix-it strategies to new words.
  • Students will apply metacognitive strategies to what they already know about new words.
  • Students will rate themselves as new word learners.

Skills Focus: Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension

Somebody Wanted In But So: SWIBS
Grades 6-8
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Lesson Targets:
  • Students will apply good listening skills to a story reading.
  • Students will grasp the main idea of a story.
  • Students will identify story elements to include character, setting, problem, motive, solution.

Skills Focus: Story Main Idea, Reading Comprehension, Listening

Digital Reading: Time Management
Grades 6-8
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Lesson Targets:
  • Students will independently time themselves when reading online print to be able to make effective decisions when researching.
  • Students will scan and surf the internet efficiently and successfully by applying self-timing strategies.

Skills Focus: Timing, Metacognition and Self-Monitoring

Digital Reading: Avoiding Distractors
Grades 6-8
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Lesson Targets:
  • Students will know how to identify distractors when surfing on the Internet.
  • Students will apply knowledge of distractors to a sense of timing for effective and efficient web navigation and digital reading.
  • Students will increase digital reading comprehension and memory by identifying and avoiding distractors.

Skills Focus: Digital Literacy, Avoiding Distractors

Web Navigation: Choice and Decision Making
Grades 6-8
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Lesson Targets:
  • Students will apply independent decision-making to develop time and attention for effective scanning and surfing on the internet.
  • Students will develop a sense of timing when searching and using multiple applications on the World Wide Web.

Focus Skills: Critical Thinking, Digital Literacy, Comprehension

Semantic Mapping - Grades 6-8
Grades 6-8
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Lesson Targets:
  • Students will develop capacity for understanding complex concepts through mapping.
  • Students will connect words and phrases with ideas and concepts.
  • Students will identify and recall the meaning of words read in context.

Skills Focus: Vocabulary, Comprehension, Concept Development