Grades 3-5

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.