Grades 3-5

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 make predictions before reading, or “anticipate”, what they think will happen in a chunk of non-fiction text.
• After reading students will determine whether their predictions and anticipations were true or false.
• Students will use an Anticipation Guide to record predictions and anticipations.

Learning Targets:

• Students will highlight and annotate main idea information in text.
• Students will analyze and synthesize highlighted and annotated sections.

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 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 will establish their own stopping points while reading and use these stopping points as catalysts for questions to the author to determine author’s purpose.
• Students will determine author’s purpose
• Students will uncover connections, and bridge understanding with prior knowledge.
• Students will examine author argument, evidence, and reasoning.
  

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 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 summarize information after an independent read of text.
• Students will apply new information to their own lives.
• Students will identify the main idea of a chunk of text and articulate its meaning to their own lives.

Learning Targets:

• Students will identify and research Latin and Greek roots in words.
• Students will determine word meaning.
• Students will write analogies.
• Students will use e-tools to identify roots and analogies in words.

Learning Targets:

• Students will generate questions across multiple content areas.
• Students will write focus questions for a text.
• Students will write questions to increase comprehension.

Learning Targets:

• Students will analyze semantic features of words to determine their meaning.
• Students will write about and discuss relationships among words.

Learning Targets:

• Students will map complex concepts.
• Students will connect words and phrases with ideas and concepts.
• Students will recall meaning in text.

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 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 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 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 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 make decisions about relationships among concepts, supported with examples from the text.
• Students will identify and apply (where feasible) solutions to problems.
• Students will write explanations about causes and effects.
• Students will and identify the importance of information.
• Students will leverage text with relevance to their own lives.