Focused Instruction

Every week we focus on a new reading skill. The students practice the skill and are then assessed on it. They chart their progress on a graph and practice the skills the following week during Success Time.

Words in Isolation

Words in Context

Reading Strategies

Author's Purpose

Story and Literary Structure

Characterization

Inference

Sequencing and Ordering

Main Idea

Summarization

Drawing Conclusions

Literary Terms and Devices

Interpreting Instructions

Practice the skills:

Words in Isolation:

Words in Context:

Reading Strategies:

Author's Purpose:

Story and Literary Structure:

Sniffy and Fluffy have an Adventure http://teach.fcps.net/TALK/activities/sri/Sniffy_andFluffy_files/frame.htm

Characterization:

Inference:

Sequencing and Ordering:

www.quia.com/pages/sequencingfun.html

Main Idea:

Summarization:

http://www.readingquest.org/strat/summarize.html

Drawing Conclusions:

http://www.shsu.edu/~txcae/readingless.html

Literary Terms and Devices:

Lesson Ideas for Reading Comprehension and Poetry

http://www.lessonspage.com/LA.htm

Interpreting Instructions:

Teacher Resources

http://www.strategiclearning.org/teachers/mesageboard.htm

Multiple FIP skills: http://www.harvey152.org/isatkids34.htm

Graphic Organizers http://www.region15.org/curriculum/graphicorg.html