Reading


 * Community of Readers
 * Book Selection at appropriate levels
 * Retelling stories with sequence of events in a simple narrative
 * Develop Reading strategies for discussion, decoding, comprehension
 * Visualization
 * Oral reading fluency 55-85 words/min.


 * Understanding Structure; Beginning, Middle events, and End
 * Problem; Important events, supporting details, inference, text evidence, transitions such as ‘In the beginning, then, next, and in the end.’


 * Retelling narrative texts with beginning, middle and ending
 * Attributes of nonfiction text and how-to text and all-about text
 * Retelling nonfiction
 * Following a sequence of steps in directions
 * Explore expository text
 * Explore genres
 * Fluency rate 70-100 words/min.
 * Reading with focus to CSAP


 * Main idea, headings, supporting details, captions, table of contents


 * Author study (Vera B. Williams) and authors as mentors
 * Write short constructed responses to literature
 * Read poetry and identify literary techniques


 * Summaries, opinions, supporting details from text