Making Gains

Pull this graphic organizer out any time you need students to look deeply at the text and locate evidence and combine that with their schema to make an inference. Inferencing is a Common Core skill necessary in the Literature and Informational Text standards. Use this form to model your own thinking, or have students practice the skill by using this GO in a collaborative group. You can also use this to assess for understanding by having students use it independently.

Florida ELA Standards reference sheet for each standard in the 3 main clusters, an example of the type of question used to assess that standard and key strategies to help students answer the questions correctly. Use this guide year round while teaching strategies and then quiz them on each standard and the question type/strategy to be successful. After standards are taught, print this front and back for them to use while practicing collaboratively or independently. The key is for students to gai

Use this half sheet to help students attend to the stories they are reading. You can print it on card stock and have them use it as a bookmark in their chapter books, or print it and use it for Close Reading strategies when they are working on a literary short story before they answer standards based questions. This guide focuses students on key standards for Literature while they are reading, including point of view, unknown words and figurative language, summarizing, and the elements of the na

Students can use this reading log to be accountable for their daily reading requirement and to attend to their reading. Students log the pages read each day in this weekly reading log as well as monitor their comprehension by writing about their reading. This log can be used in conjunction with the teaching of the narrative text structure. Students can record each week the characters and events in their stories.