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Writing an Essay

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.


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