In this class, students will learn a top priority reading comprehension skill and record their understanding of the shared reading using their copy of the guided comprehension questions or interactive graphic organizer. We will end the class by answering an open-ended writing prompt that requires students to demonstrate their comprehension of the text by responding with a written response. Priority reading skills taught in this class include main idea, compare and contrast, story elements, inferencing, cause/effect and many more.  Guided comprehension questions and organizers serve as an engaging note-taking aid to check for understanding. In addition, they promote high student engagement because students have something to focus on throughout the class.  

Overall, students check and prove their comprehension of a text with guided reading questions and a written response.

 I will post the PDF document of the organizer and questions prior to class.   

***students should be able to write and read complete sentences in order to progress through this class.***

CLASS OUTLINE:
1. Lesson: Teacher models the comprehension lesson of the class
2. Read:  Read shared text as a class from Google slides
3. Questions or Organizer: Classmates share ideas and interactively complete the questions/organizer about the shared reading
4. Visual Aid: Teacher records these ideas on the Google slides so students can see ideas their classmates are sharing
5. Written response question:  Answer an open-ended writing prompt using a short essay format
6. Wrap up and review the reading comprehension skill of the lesson

COMPREHENSION  SKILL CALENDAR:

Week of  June 10: Character Traits
Week of June 17:  Summarize 
Week of June 24: Main Idea
Week of July 1: Perspective
Week of July 8: Inquiry and Background Knowledge
Week of July 15: Cause and Effect
Week of July 22: Story Elements

**I will update for each month