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This class will show students that reading is a meaning-making process, that they are responsible for making sense of what they read, students need to become aware of their thinking before, during, and after the reading process, that they are safe to recognize and acknowledge confusion in our community of readers, and that there are particular reading comprehension strategies they can use when texts don’t make sense. While engaging in different genres, we will practice a variety of reading strategies. · Fiction: story analysis – plot, character, setting, theme · Non fiction: finding the main idea/theses; outlining main ideas and details || Vocabulary ||
 * Specific Course Objectives: ** We will use class novels, Accelerated Reader Books, newspapers/magazine articles, etc. to learn about and practice the skills of good readers.
 * ** Before Reading ** || ** During Reading ** || ** After Reading ** ||
 * Activate prior knowledge – making connections || Comprehension monitoring (rereading, paraphrasing, summarizing, author’s purpose…) || Answering questions – supporting from the text ||
 * Generating questions || Use of graphic organizers || Detecting main ideas and details ||
 * Determining purpose || Generating question || Summarizing ||
 * Vocabulary || Predicting || Evaluating ||
 * || Detecting main idea and details || Synthesizing ||
 * || Detecting text structure
 * || Interpreting figurative language || ||
 * || Inferring || ||
 * || Vocabulary || ||