Readers+Journey+Seventh+Grade

ELA Elements needed for Balanced Literacy Reading · Phonics: Alphabet recognition, alphabet writing, spelling patterns, vowel confusion, consonant confusion, chunking, digraphs, consonant clusters, word structure · Phonemic Awareness: rhyme recognition, rhyme generation, syllable clapping, initial & final consonants, blending, segmenting · Fluency: automaticity, learning frequent words by sight, seeing phrases as wholes, using prediction skills within the phrase or clause, inflection, attention to punctuation · Vocabulary: word structure, using context clues, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms · Comprehension: topic recognition, using context clues, summarizing, self-monitoring, questioning, literary story elements, inferring/drawing conclusions, interpreting graphics, relevant/irrelevant information, following multiple events in a text, character analysis, synthesizing, genre attributes/characteristics, background knowledge/predicting/making connections, note taking, cueing systems, text structure & features, metacognition, sensory images, literary devices, sequencing, compare & contrast, retelling.

Scaffolding the Projects with the ELA Units of Study.

September 7-October 15 Launching the ELA Readers and Writers Workshops. October 18-November 18 Refer to the Middle School Historical Fiction Unit Grade 4 & 5 Historical Fiction (Unit 9 & 7 respectively) ---Compare and Contrast. Graphic Organizer—Venn Diagram Elementary Unit -- expository essay and research writing.

December 1-January 31, 2011 Middle School Non Fiction Unit of study. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Note taking, paraphrasing, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Grade Three (Unit 3) Non Fiction Reading and Writing <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Fourth Grade (Unit 7)“Writing the Content Area of Social Studies” <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Grade Five (Unit 5) Building Comprehension Through Short Texts

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">February 1-March 18 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Refer to the Middle School Book Club Unit—Art of questioning, persuasive writing, author study. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">“Fostering Book Talk among Our Young Reader—How and Why we Talk” <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> --Excellent reference to book clubs and book talk activities. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Grade Five (Unit 3) Developing Ideas about Books through Characters <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Grade Four (Unit 6 & 7) Managing Partnerships: Book Clubs <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Grade Three (Unit 2) Readers have ideas about Book Characters <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Grade Two (Unit 2 & 3) Character Study and Talking, Thinking and Writing about Reading.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">March 21-April 15 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Revisit conventions of Non Fiction, Art of questioning. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Elementary Unit “We are all Readers and Writers –How We Grow” <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Grade 4 (Unit 3) Non Fiction Reading <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Grade 5 (Unit 5)Building Comprehension through Short Texts

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">April/May <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Test Sophistication Middle School Unit <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Elementary Unit _”Taking Reading and Writing to the Next Level—Why We Test” Grade 3 (Unit 6) CLOSE Reading across Texts <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Answering short response questions, “Say it/Support It” --supporting statements with text <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Grade 3, 4, 5 (Unit 4) Test Taking Strategies <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Type in the content of your page here.