Reading Strategy

Reading Genre

Reading Skills

Six Trait Mini- Lesson Ideas

Writing Form

Connect

-Realistic Fiction
-Fairy Tales/folk tales
-Myths/legends
-Science: Predict
  what  will happen

-Story map
-Story elements
-Text structure
-Schema for genre
-Author’s similarities -Symbolism
-Allusion

-Ideas
-Brainstorm ideas  related to a topic -Ask students to
  make  everyday
  connections to
  object

-Narrative
-Author study
-Memoir
-Diary

Create sensory images

-Poetry
-Fantasy
-Science Fiction
-Fiction: setting,
  mood
-Non fiction
-Math
-Science

-Figurative language
-Vocabulary
-Idiom

-Ideas/Details
    Showing vs. Telling
-Word Choice  
  Conventions
     Vivid verbs
     Precise nouns

-Writing Workshop
-Poetry

Question

-Non fiction
-Author’s purpose
-Fiction (e.g. survival)

-Fact/opinion
-Evaluating and
  sources -Cause/effect

-All traits except
  coventions
-Revision process
    I wonder why you-
    I wonder what
    happens next - -Ideas/details

-All writing
-Research
-Persuasive

Determine
Importance

-Fiction–elements -Historical fiction -Biography, Diary
-Any non-fiction
     Text structure
     Text conventions

-Skimming/scanning -Summary
-Note taking -Research skills -Culture and era

-Ideas/Details
-Peers identify most
important paragraph,
sentence, or word in   writing
-Organization (text structure)

-Expository -Persuasive
-Research

Infer

-Fiction
  characterization -Vocabulary, unknown   words
-Poetry
-Mystery
-Fantasy
-Science Fiction

-Foreshadowing -Theme
-Point of view
-Drawing conclusions -Evaluating
  information
-Symbolism
-Irony
-Allusion

-Ideas/Details
-What to delete? -How to create
  believable characters
-Word Choice
-Voice

-Writing Workshop
-Poetry

Synthesis

-Memoirs
-Narrative
-Non-fiction
-Fable
-Classics

-Retelling
-Summarizing
-Theme
-Symbolism

-Ideas/Details
-What is the purpose? -What will the reader  learn?

-Narrative
-Writing Workshop

Determine
Importance

-Rereading

-Organization
     Text structure

-Any writing

Infer

Determine
Importance

-Persuasive
-Poetry

-Point of view
-Dialect

-Voice
-Word Choice

-Persuasive
-Poetry

Infer

Determine
Importance

-Persuasive
-Poetry

-Tone
-Denotation,
  connotation  

-Word Choice

-Poetry
-Persuasive

Infer

-Poetry
-Reader’s Theater

-Re-reading
-Rate, accuracy
  expression

-Sentence fluency

-All writing

Monitor for
Meaning

-All

-Rereading
-Context clues
-Metacognition

-Conventions
-Presentation

-Published pieces