GUIDED READING BASICS TWO  is a class that has been designed to teach, review and practice Reading Skills that are embedded within reading passages that students read on a daily basis. This is a continuation of the  Guided Reading Basics One course, and the foci will be placed upon skills whereby the student must deconstruct and then reconstruct text to derive their answers.  This will afford the student an opportunity to delve deeper into practicing the necessary and most needed reading skills that they will use for life.  Students will find this PP Slide presentation and workbook  course is a useful addition and great help towards achieving  and meeting common core standards.
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SOME SKILLS ADDRESSED:  
Main Idea                          Supporting Details
Context Clues:                  via Vocabulary
Drawing Conclusions       Summarizing
Inferencing                        Skim, Scan
Author's Purpose              Close Read & Annotate
Text Organization             Cause & Eff., Chronological Order, Comp./Contrast                  
Narrative Elements           Plot Diagram, Types of Characters, Point of View, Tone                              
Literary Devices                Irony, Pun, Idioms, Motifs, Alliteration, Understatement
Connotation                      Denotation
Claims                                Predicting                         

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STRATEGIES ADDRESSED:
Annotating
Close Reading 
Predicting
Visualizing
Paraphrasing
Text Features
Process of Elimination
Mental Reading Strategies
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UPCOMING COURSE SCHEDULE - start date:  FALL 2024
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MONTH  1
FOCI:      Context Clues, Predictions, Drawing Conclusions

MONTH   2
FOCI:       Context Clues, Inference, Summarizing

MONTH   3 
FOCI:      Context Clues, Figurative Language, Text Organization
 
MONTH   4
FOCI:       Narrative Elements, Plot Diagram, Context Clues, 
                 Figurative Language, Summarizing, all skills taught
                 "Reading Comprehension" - grade 5 by Scholastic

MONTH   5
FOCI:       Narrative Elements, Plot Diagram, Context Clues, 
                 Figurative Language, Summarizing, all skills taught
                 "Reading Comprehension" - grade 5 by Adam Free

MONTH   6
FOCI:       Narrative Elements, Plot Diagram, Context Clues, 
                 Figurative Language, Summarizing, all skills taught
                 "Prove It" -  grades 5-8  by Melissa Smith       

MONTH   7
FOCI:       Narrative Elements, Plot Diagram, Context Clues, 
                 Figurative Language, Summarizing, all skills taught
                 "Reading Comprehension" - grade 8 by Lumos Learning
  
MONTH   8
FOCI:        Narrative Elements, Plot Diagram, Context Clues, 
                  Figurative Language, Summarizing, all skills taught
                  "Reading Comprehension" - grade 8 by Lumos Learning
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PLEASE NOTE:    "100 Task Cards:  Figurative Language"  and 
                              "Vocabulary Words in Context" will be used 
                               throughout the duration of the course