Cross Curricular Reading: If students participate in On-going Resources: K-5 Teaching and cross curricular Assessing for Literacy across the Science and reading, then students Learning content areas: all Social Studies will develop the ability Using Results students will read texts leveled texts; to respond to higher for of increasing teacher read order questioning. Continuous complexity over the alouds with If students participate in Improvement course of the year in an integrated lexiles at the curriculum then they reading, science, social end of each will be able to use studies, and math. grade-level’s general academic and Incorporating more stretch lexile domain specific nonfiction leveled band. vocabulary in their oral texts within guided Continued and written expression reading groups. which will lead to an professional increase in Explicit teaching of learning and comprehension. reading skills to time to include: summarization collaborate with and extracting teams.
Teaching and Assessing for Learning Using Results for Continuous Improvement Cross Curricular Reading: Literacy across the content areas: all students will read texts of increasing complexity over the course of the year in reading, science, social studies, and math. Incorporating more nonfiction leveled texts within guided reading groups. Explicit teaching of reading skills to include: summarization and extracting If students participate in cross curricular reading, then students will develop the ability to respond to higher order questioning. If students participate in an integrated curriculum then they will be able to use general academic and domain specific vocabulary in their oral and written expression which will lead to an increase in comprehension. On-going Resources: K-5 Science and Social Studies leveled texts; teacher read alouds with lexiles at the end of each grade-level’s stretch lexile band. Continued professional learning and time to collaborate with teams.
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