1. Strategic Reading
6th Grade

2. Class Description: 20-week intervention class (1 Semester) Small Group
Text Structure & Mapping
Non-fiction text
Making Inferences
Critical Thinking

3. GOALS
To provide opportunity for student growth toward grade level reading.
To help students better understand expository text in all subjects.

4. Rules for Reading Take risks, good readers make mistakes!
Give everyone a chance to self-correct
Ask “What can I do for myself?”

5. Answering the Questions Asked
3 Types of Questions
Right There
(Literal)
Think & Search
(The book & my brain)
On My Own
(Extension)

6. Text Structure
graphs

7. Text Mapping Global & Local Structures

8. Classroom Website

9. Grades Citizenship Letter Behavior Participation Total point scales
Below 60%= U
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10. Strategic Reading is based on the AARI Program from Oakland Schools
Strategic Reading is based on the AARI Program from Oakland Schools Adolescent Accelerated Reading Initiative

11. Looking toward to a wonderful year!