Lakota Local Schools is proud to be an
affiliate district with Columbia University's Reading and
Writing Project in New York. We are extremely proud of our
students' growth and strive to use best practices for our
students. This year I will be incorporating a version of Daily 5
and CAFE Literacy into our workshop! I am very excited! Stay
tuned for production updates!
Second grade reading: The transition from learning to read...to
reading to learn.
Our Curriculum Calendar for 2010-2011
Must Have Books for Reading Workshop
Helpful Teacher Sites for Daily 5 and CAFE
Good readers use the following 7 Keys to unlock meaning:
1. Create mental images: Good readers create a
wide range of visual,
auditory, and other sensory images as they read, and they become
emotionally
involved with what they read.
2. Use background knowledge: Good readers use their
relevant prior
knowledge before, during, and after reading to enhance their
understanding
of what they’re reading.
3. Ask questions: Good readers generate questions
before, during, and
after reading to clarify meaning, make predictions, and focus
their
attention on what’s important.
4. Make inferences: good readers use their prior
knowledge and
information from what they read to make predictions, seek
answers to
questions, draw conclusions, and create interpretations that
deepen their
understanding of the text.
5. Determine the most important ideas or themes: Good
readers identify
key ideas or themes as they read, and they can distinguish
between important
and unimportant information.
6. Synthesize information: good readers track their
thinking as it
evolves during reading, to get the overall meaning.
7. Use fix up strategies: Good readers are aware of when
they
understand and when they don’t. If they have trouble
understanding specific
words, phrases, or longer passages, they use a wide range of
problem-solving
strategies including skipping ahead, rereading, asking
questions, using a
dictionary, and reading the passage aloud.
Excerpted from: 7 Keys to Comprehension: How to Help Your
Kids Read It and Get it!
Authors: Susan Zimmermann and Chryse Hutchins.
  
The new West Chester Library is AWESOME! Our public library is a great
resource for books and gives our kids an opportunity to search
through the genres to make great choices for reading. AND IT'S
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