VOCABULARY & WORD STUDY

• Recognize the stages of word work
• Ramp up root-word instruction
• Master vocabulary with Marzano’s six steps
• Crack the code on functional vocabulary
• Construct grade-level vocabulary lists

COMPREHENSION STANDARDS

• Advance beyond retelling/summarizing in literature
• Track ideas across a story
• Understand how text structure impacts comprehension
• Differentiate between the perspective & point of view of texts
• Learn the secret to comparing texts

READER THINKING

• Honor all components identified within the science of reading
• Demystify context clues
• Teach inferring in 5 steps
• Infer despite a lack of background knowledge
• Annotate & note-take to improve comprehension

TEXT-BASED RESPONSES

• Equip readers from the first day to test day
• Write about texts in the primary grades
• Improve constructed-response writing
• Synthesize to produce extended responses
• Target 4 types of narrative reading responses

CONTENT-AREA READING

• Redefine research experiences
• Understand the unique skills of subject-area reading
• Move beyond identifying text features
• Apply comprehension strategies when solving word problems
• Dive deep into digital texts