Reading Strategy |
Reading Genre |
Reading Skills |
Six Trait Mini- Lesson Ideas |
Writing Form |

Connect
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-Realistic Fiction
-Fairy Tales/folk tales
-Myths/legends
-Science: Predict
what will happen
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-Story map
-Story elements
-Text structure
-Schema for genre
-Author’s similarities -Symbolism
-Allusion
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-Ideas
-Brainstorm ideas related to a topic -Ask students to
make everyday
connections to
object
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-Narrative
-Author study
-Memoir
-Diary
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Create sensory images
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-Poetry
-Fantasy
-Science Fiction
-Fiction: setting,
mood
-Non fiction
-Math
-Science
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-Figurative language -Vocabulary
-Idiom
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-Ideas/Details
Showing vs. Telling
-Word Choice
Conventions
Vivid verbs
Precise nouns
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-Writing Workshop -Poetry
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Question
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-Non fiction
-Author’s purpose
-Fiction (e.g. survival)
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-Fact/opinion
-Evaluating and
sources -Cause/effect
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-All traits except
coventions
-Revision process
I wonder why you-
I wonder what
happens next - -Ideas/details
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-All writing
-Research
-Persuasive
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Determine
Importance
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-Fiction–elements -Historical fiction -Biography, Diary
-Any non-fiction
Text structure
Text conventions
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-Skimming/scanning -Summary
-Note taking -Research skills -Culture and era
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-Ideas/Details
-Peers identify most
important paragraph,
sentence, or word in writing
-Organization (text structure)
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-Expository -Persuasive
-Research
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Infer
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-Fiction
characterization -Vocabulary, unknown words
-Poetry
-Mystery
-Fantasy
-Science Fiction
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-Foreshadowing -Theme
-Point of view
-Drawing conclusions -Evaluating
information
-Symbolism
-Irony
-Allusion
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-Ideas/Details
-What to delete? -How to create
believable characters -Word Choice
-Voice
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-Writing Workshop -Poetry
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Synthesis
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-Memoirs
-Narrative
-Non-fiction
-Fable
-Classics
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-Retelling
-Summarizing
-Theme
-Symbolism
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-Ideas/Details
-What is the purpose? -What will the reader learn?
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-Narrative
-Writing Workshop
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Determine
Importance
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-Rereading
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-Organization
Text structure
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-Any writing
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Infer
Determine
Importance
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-Persuasive
-Poetry
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-Point of view
-Dialect
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-Voice
-Word Choice
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-Persuasive
-Poetry
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Infer
Determine
Importance
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-Persuasive -Poetry
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-Tone
-Denotation,
connotation
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-Word Choice
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-Poetry
-Persuasive
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Infer
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-Poetry
-Reader’s Theater
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-Re-reading
-Rate, accuracy
expression
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-Sentence fluency
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-All writing
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Monitor for Meaning
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-All
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-Rereading
-Context clues
-Metacognition
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-Conventions
-Presentation
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-Published pieces
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