Practicing Reading Strategies in Tangerine by Edward Bloor

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Theme:

KWL Chart

Grades:

6 - 8

Subject:

Reading and Language Arts

Duration:

2–3 class periods

Standards
& Goals:

Florida State Learning Standards

  • The student uses a variety of strategies to comprehend grade level text.
  • The student will use background knowledge of subject and related content areas, pre-reading strategies, graphic representations and knowledge of text structure to make and confirm complex predictions of content, purpose and organization of a reading selection.
  •  The student will determine the main idea or essential message in grade-level text through inferring, paraphrasing, summarizing and identifying relevant details.

Note that standards in this lesson plan are for example only. This lesson can be easily adapted to meet your state's specific standards.

Objectives:

Students will:

  • Read pp. 38–54 in Tangerine by Edward Bloor.
  • Use a K-W-L chart in order to reflect on their learning.
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