Enhanced Reading
Enhanced Reading is a supplemental program of reading instruction. I will have the opportunity to work with your child during their reading class. The goal of this program is to teach reading strategies to students who struggle in comprehension and fluency. The strategies will be applicable for students as they continue through high school and college and can help them to achieve success.
Enhanced Reading focuses on comprehension skills but also targets vocabulary development and fluency in both fiction and non-fiction text.
In order for this program to be successful, it is crucial that your child maintain regular attendance and complete all work in a timely fashion. I am excited to teach your child this year and look forward to working with you!
Enhanced Reading focuses on comprehension skills but also targets vocabulary development and fluency in both fiction and non-fiction text.
In order for this program to be successful, it is crucial that your child maintain regular attendance and complete all work in a timely fashion. I am excited to teach your child this year and look forward to working with you!
Enhanced Reading Course Elements
Lesson Structure:
Read Alouds: The teacher models good reading practice through reading fiction/nonfiction passages that are high interest and relevant to students. Students will then partner read or independently read selections of text to practice reading comprehension skills.
Strategies Used in Enhanced Reading:
-Numbered Heads Together:
A cooperative strategy in which partners study the meaning of new vocabulary by building associations with the new words and then collaborate to respond to questions about the new words.
-Cooperative Comprehension:
Students work in pairs or small groups to discuss and record responses to comprehension tasks pose three to five questions of graduated difficulty.
-Dictated Writing:
It is a teacher facilitated writing activity that addresses higher order comprehension skills. Each student works with a partner to respond in writing to prompts provided by the teacher. The teacher then combines student writings into a class essay.
-Inductive Thinking:
This higher-order thinking strategy is used to teach students a process fro determining the author's central message and main idea. Working in cooperative groups, students discuss passages from a piece, categorize the passages by common meaning, and form generalizations about their categories.
Silent Reading/Vocabulary:
Students individually read books they have selected at their recreational/independent reading level and record on index cards words that are new or unknown to them. Each student maintains a personal vocabulary file of words that he/she has identified as new. In addition, words introduced by the teacher each week during the read aloud/think aloud become part of each students vocabulary file.
Round Table:
This is a simple cooperative comprehension exercise in which partners recall information about selections the teacher has read aloud to the entire class.
Fluency/Comprehension:
Fluency is the ability to read text accurately, quickly, and with proper expression. to this end, SCR students will participate in repeated reading activities called Reader's Theater performances. In addition, SCR students are administered a fluency and comprehension test biweekly. Students monitor their own progress. The goal is for students to learn to adjust the speed at which they read various kinds of materials so as to improve individual comprehension.
Graphic Organizers:
A graphic organizer is a tool to help students organize their understanding and recall of important ideas in the areas of vocabulary development and comprehension. Graphic organizers help students to focus on concepts and how they are related to other concepts.
Read Alouds: The teacher models good reading practice through reading fiction/nonfiction passages that are high interest and relevant to students. Students will then partner read or independently read selections of text to practice reading comprehension skills.
Strategies Used in Enhanced Reading:
-Numbered Heads Together:
A cooperative strategy in which partners study the meaning of new vocabulary by building associations with the new words and then collaborate to respond to questions about the new words.
-Cooperative Comprehension:
Students work in pairs or small groups to discuss and record responses to comprehension tasks pose three to five questions of graduated difficulty.
-Dictated Writing:
It is a teacher facilitated writing activity that addresses higher order comprehension skills. Each student works with a partner to respond in writing to prompts provided by the teacher. The teacher then combines student writings into a class essay.
-Inductive Thinking:
This higher-order thinking strategy is used to teach students a process fro determining the author's central message and main idea. Working in cooperative groups, students discuss passages from a piece, categorize the passages by common meaning, and form generalizations about their categories.
Silent Reading/Vocabulary:
Students individually read books they have selected at their recreational/independent reading level and record on index cards words that are new or unknown to them. Each student maintains a personal vocabulary file of words that he/she has identified as new. In addition, words introduced by the teacher each week during the read aloud/think aloud become part of each students vocabulary file.
Round Table:
This is a simple cooperative comprehension exercise in which partners recall information about selections the teacher has read aloud to the entire class.
Fluency/Comprehension:
Fluency is the ability to read text accurately, quickly, and with proper expression. to this end, SCR students will participate in repeated reading activities called Reader's Theater performances. In addition, SCR students are administered a fluency and comprehension test biweekly. Students monitor their own progress. The goal is for students to learn to adjust the speed at which they read various kinds of materials so as to improve individual comprehension.
Graphic Organizers:
A graphic organizer is a tool to help students organize their understanding and recall of important ideas in the areas of vocabulary development and comprehension. Graphic organizers help students to focus on concepts and how they are related to other concepts.
Information: Grading and Expectations
Rules and Expectations
Examples of consequences
Grading
Literary Analysis Expectations
Late and Make Up Work Policy
Book Talk Rubric
Parent Letter 2013
Examples of consequences
Grading
Literary Analysis Expectations
Late and Make Up Work Policy
Book Talk Rubric
Parent Letter 2013