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Reading Curriculum

     

Theme 1:  Journeys

  • Strategy:  Making Connections
  • Good readers use their schema (what they already know) to connect to their reading.  There are 3 kinds of connections.
  • Text-to-Self
  • Text-to-Text
  • Text-to-World

Theme 2:  American Stories

  • Strategy:  Questioning
  • Good readers ask questions before, during, and after reading.

Theme 3:  That's Amazing!

  • Strategy:  Inferring
  • Good readers use what they know and clues from the author to make inferences when they read.

Theme 4:  Problem Solvers

  • Strategy:  Determining Importance
  • Good readers determine what is the most important idea when they read.

Theme 5:  Heroes

  • Strategy:  Visualizing
  • Good readers create a movie in their minds as they read.

Theme 6:  Nature:  Friend and Foe

  • Strategy:  Synthesizing
  • Good readers use what they know and information gained from their reading to create new ideas.