11 Intermediate Guided Reading Lessons for Our Class

Super Soaker Skills

Way cooler than GR lessons, we are calling them Super Soaker Skills because these are the 1) skills students need to soak in yesterday and 2) it makes me think of the top dog water guns. 

These 11 skills are the most important of the 20 for our classroom. We've combined a few and added details as necessary to meet our needs. Students can use this as a reference when completing assignments or to review periodically. 

1. Selecting Books and  Creating a Successful  Reading Classroom
2. Ways We Choose Books
3. Executing SSR

4. Making Good Book Choices
5. Reading Is Thinking: P.1 Mnemonics

6. Reading Is Thinking: P.2 RIT Definitions

7. Characteristics of Fiction, Nonfiction, & Poetry
8. Genres within Fiction and Nonfiction
9. Keeping a Record of Reading
10. Writing Letters About Reading

11. Writing Responses to Each Other

11 Thinking is Reading Intermediate Lessons from FortheLoveofTweens

Enjoy!

The Common Core, The CCRS, The New Standards, and All Other Nicknames

 

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When I was graduating college in 2009, the standards were introduced. To me, they've been around for a fat minute. I know they change, and they are increasingly different, but I'm getting over the big deal. By this time, we should all be pretty familiar with the Common Core. That in mind, this latest version provides an exciting challenge. I love the challenge of connecting nonfiction articles to our fictional novels, in addition to poetry and vocabulary, and extended writing assignments that all correlate. I've been having a hard time figuring out the specific difference between each grade level. Teaching language arts, I see students on a range of six or more grade levels in student ability in each of the sub categories: reading, writing, poetry, vocabulary, fluency. I wanted to know what specifically I should teach if my students are below or above grade level. So in this document, you'll find there are 40 pages of rubrics that compare reading and all other language arts standards from grades K-10. You'll see the specific differences in each grade level in a much simpler format to prevent your headache! Try the different checklists to help you choose and use what works best for you for your specific purpose!