Course Description

  • Reading Power: The overall emphasis in this course will be on helping struggling readers with researched based interventions. Individualized reading interventions will support and assist students in improving both their reading fluency and comprehension skills.

Reading Targets

  • As evidenced based on classroom assessments, the student is able to:

    • 6.4.1.1 Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
    • 6.4.2.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
    • 6.4.4.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.
    • 6.4.10.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature and other texts including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently and independently with appropriate scaffolding for texts at the high end of the range.
    • 6.11.6.6 Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.

Materials Used

    • StudyIsland
    • Literature: Grade 6 Textbook Holt Elements of Literature
    • Scope Magazine
    • Self Selected Texts
    • Read Naturally Leveled passages
    • Leveled Mazes
    • Orton Gillingham
    • Readworks
    • Newsela