Peer Coaching
Learning Targets:
- Students will articulate via images 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.
QtA: Question the Author
Learning Targets:
- Students will establish stopping points while reading to determine author’s purpose.
- Students will uncover connections to build prior knowledge.
- Students will examine author argument, evidence, and reasoning.
Reading Critically
Learning Targets:
- Students will analyze information from multiple sources.
- Students will pull information from various sources to form a conclusion.
- Students will think critically about the text to write a critical response.
Reciprocal Teaching
Learning Targets:
- Students make predictions using short chunks of text while reading aloud.
- Students read headings, subtitles, chapter titles and other relevant pieces of text.
- Students share their predictions in pairs.
Reciprocal Teaching
Learning Targets:
- Students will use text features.
- Students will summarize, confirm predictions, and write questions after reading.
- Students will read to answer and ask questions, summarize, and make new predictions.
Say, Mean, Matter: What does it say? What does it mean? Why does it matter?
Learning Targets:
- Students will summarize information after an independent read of text.
- Students will apply new information to their own lives and articulate its relevancy to the text.
- Students will identify the main idea of a chunk of text and articulate its meaning to their own lives.
Searching for Root Words
Learning Targets:
- Students will identify and research Latin and Greek roots within words.
- Students will determine a word’s meaning through its Latin and/or Greek roots.
- Students will research and identify analogies for new vocabulary.
- Students will use tools to research and identify roots and analogies.
Self-Questioning
Learning Targets:
- Students will be able to generate questions across multiple content areas.
- Students will write focus questions for a text.
- Students will raise and write questions to increase comprehension of a selected text.
- Students will monitor their reading.
Semantic Feature Analysis
Learning Targets:
- Students will analyze semantic features of words to determine their meaning.
- Students will write about and discuss relationships among words.
Semantic Mapping
Learning Targets:
- Students will develop capacity for understanding complex concepts.
- Students will connect words and phrases with ideas and concepts.
- Students will identify and recall the meaning of words read in context.
Somebody Wanted In But So: SWIBS
Learning 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.
The Who Cares Proposal Test
Learning Targets:
- Students will use text to make decisions about relationships among concepts.
- Students will identify and apply solutions to problems.
- Students will write explanations.
- Students will leverage text with life.