
Writing an Essay
Learning Targets:
- Students will organize information into write an essay of their own.
- Students will analyze published essays to develop familiarity genre.
- Students will compile organized information into an essay.

Marzano's 1-4 for Vocabulary
Learning Targets:
- Students will investigate terms related to new vocabulary words.
- Students will describe and explain new vocabulary.
- Students will restate sentences in their own words using new terms.

Project Peer Coaching
Learning Targets:
- Students will analyze their projects with peers.
- Students will seek assistance from their peers.
- Students will act on feedback received to revise and edit.

Reading a Textbook
Learning Targets:
- Students read relevant pieces of text to aid in the prediction and comprehension process.
- Students will summarize, address predictions, and write questions.
- Students will read to answer and ask questions, summarize, and make new predictions.

Literature Webbing
Learning Targets:
- Students will organize information from a guided reading into a literature web.
- Students will make predictions about an upcoming reading.
- Students will identify main idea.
- Students will identify chronological order of events.

Reading Digital Print
Learning Targets:
- Students will know and understand how to navigate digital print to make predictions.
- Students will know and understand how to monitor their own reading by using metacognition.
- Students will use metacognition and predictions to improve their reading.

Reciprocal Teaching
Learning Targets:
- Students will take on the role of “teacher” and share responsibilities as summarizer, questioner, clarifier, and predictor
- Students make and confirm predictions.
- Students ask questions during reading.

Effective Web Navigation
Learning Targets:
- Students will apply knowledge of conventions and concepts of digital print.
- Students will deepen their reading comprehension with effective reading of digital print.

Managing Time When Reading Digitally
Learning Targets:
- Students will make effective decisions when reading and researching online.
- Students will apply self-timing strategies when reading digital print and multi-media.

Sentence Patterns and Word Charts
Learning Targets:
- Students will apply language structure to words and sentences.
- Students will build vocabulary through oral language practice and word categorization.
- Students will engage in shared and interactive reading and writing.

Switching Strategy
Learning Targets:
- Students will pull together sources to draw a conclusion.
- Students will apply a switching strategy to comprehend the author’s intention.
- Students will increase comprehension by relating their own lives to a reading.

Critical Literacy: Alternative Text and Synthesis
Learning Targets:
- Students will drive an informational quest to synthesize information.
- Students will pull combine to form a conclusion.
- Students will think broadly about text and apply an alternative text approach using character substitution.

Story Writing and Story Telling
Learning Targets:
- Students will design their own story using a storyboard and images.
- Students will apply “good speaking” skills to the retelling of their own story.
- Students will rate their own oral reading using the Good Speaking Rubric.

Peer Coaching
Learning Targets:
- Students will articulate their need for assistance with their writing.
- Students will act on feedback received about their writing to revise and edit their work into a final product.

Literature Webbing and Writing
Learning Targets:
- Students will organize information from a guided reading into a literature web.
- Students will make predictions.
- Students will identify main idea and write about it using the literature web.
- Students will identify chronological order of events.

New Word Inventory
Learning 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.

Somebody Wanted But So: SWBS
Learning Targets:
- Students will apply listening skills to a story reading.
- Students will grasp the main idea.
- Students will identify story elements to include character, setting, problem, solution.

Somebody In Wanted But So: SIWBS
Learning Targets:
- Students will apply good listening skills to a story reading.
- Students will grasp the main idea in their reading.
- Students will identify story elements to articulate main ideas.

I Spy Writing Activity
Learning Targets:
- Students will carry on dialogue with the by responding to objects around the room.
- Students will listen and follow single-step directions from peers.
- Students will write and solve one problem based on peer dialogue.

Know, Want to Know, Learned
Learning Targets:
- Students will understand how to complete a KWL form after reading a short selection of text.
- Students will apply a KWL strategy to a reading selection.