Reading is a comprehensive curriculum that focuses on teaching students to become independent readers by learning the proper strategies to help them understand texts. Students will develop and expand their reading skills through numerous exercises focusing on comprehension and inferencing strategies, exposure to multiple literary genres, weekly vocabulary exercises, and sustained silent reading time during class.
Course Objectives
· Help students achieve cognitive confidence reading, which includes aiding students with comprehension, vocabulary, word recognition, and fluency/automaticity.
· Help students achieve social and emotional confidence reading, which includes guiding students to possess a positive attitude toward reading and be an active participant in a community of readers.
· Help students achieve text confidence, which includes assisting students to develop the stamina to continue reading difficult texts and find authors and genres that interest them.
Daily Supplies
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Three-ring binder with tabs devoted to Language Arts only. If your Language Arts teacher a binder, you can make a tab in that binder specifically devoted for Reading
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Composition notebook, which will be left in class to be used as your reading dialogue journal
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Plenty of lined paper to be included in binder
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Blue or black pens and pencils
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OHS student planner, which will be used as your hall pass
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Outside reading book
