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Schedule for 4th/5th Grade Reading
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Skills Procedures:
Students will identify main ideas and supporting details from text.
Students will summarize key ideas from text.
Students will generate and answer literal, inferential, and evaluative, questions.
Students will distinguish fact from opinion.
Students will critically read and evaluate text to identify author's purpose.
Students will be identify literary elements, characters, tone and theme.
Students will be able to identify the meanings of similes and metaphors.
Students will increase their vocabulary skills, including antonyms, synonyms, homonyms, prefixes, suffes, latin and greel roots.

Strategies:
Predicting
Clarifying vocabulary and concepts
Questioning (higher order)
Summarizing

Blooms:
Knowledge: students identify important parts of text.
Comprehension: students will understand
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important parts of text.
Application: students will be able to apply text read to other situations.
Analysis: students should be able to identify and infer important unstated features of test )tone, theme, authors point of view)
Synthesis: students should be able to continue the thoughts, moods, logical sequence of a text.
Evaluation: students should be able to make a statement about a text and back it up with evidence.

March 2008
English Literature:
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; Conan Doyle.
Oliver Twist or Great Expectations; Charles Dickens

April 2008
Students do an author or genre study of their own choice.

May 2008
American Literature:
An American Yankee in King Arthurs Court; Mark Twain
Walk Two Moons; Sharon Creech
The Library Card, Richard Wright
The Road to Memphis; Mildred Taylor