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Jennifer Serravallo’s Reading Strategies BookSupporting Comprehension in Nonfiction: Determining Main Topic(s) and Idea(s)This document was designed to streamline Serravallo's work to target strategies just for nonfiction. Reading the text set for assessments such as the Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) is a huge issue for many students. Complex text is being presented and the old standard, "The main idea is usually the first or the last sentence in the paragraph" just doesn't work. As ELA

This lesson set was designed to be at the low end of the 4-5 Lexile band and toward the upper end of the word count band based on the test specs for the Florida Standards Assessment. It was written to hit both ELA standards and Social Studies standards for the state of Florida. The analysis provides the teacher with the opportunity to make a choice for which text to present based on different features of the text. Prompt 1: Your class is presenting a living wax museum so that visitors can learn

This is an informational text about Hispanic Heritage Month. Students are to read, code the text for main ideas, and write to respond to the follow Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) or CCSS, PARRC, AIR style prompt: Writing Prompt: Our school is having a Fiesta to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. Write an informative essay to discuss why studying about the Hispanic culture is important. Also, included in this lesson set is a list of Hispanic Heritage related books as well as Social Studies s

The attached document was created to be placed near computers in our media center so that kids of all ages would be able to follow the step-by-step process for taking a quiz on Renaissance Place/Accelerated Reader. Tricky steps are supplemented with screen shots so that even very young readers are able to access this resource. CHAMPs are also illustrated by using book covers to help engage students.

The text set and prompt (Musical Instruments) is from Dade County. The additional text set and prompt are ones that I wrote to be paired with this piece. Either piece is appropriate for student use. They are both written in the text based writing style that aligns with the Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) and other assessments such as PARRC, AIR, etc. The intent was to use one text set and prompt for student use and the other for the teacher to use as a model. This way the teacher can model te

This document was designed to help map out a year of writing. Broken down into 9 weeks sections, featuring Language Arts Florida Standards (LAFS), and Webb's Depth of Knowledge. Follow this structure to introduce and reinforce the hardest standards first and focus on what matters most as far as the text-based writing for the Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) or any PARRC style test. An additional page shows the thinking behind the path. Using the Achievement Level Descriptors (ALDs) and the

Attached is a listing of myON books that span January (Martin Luther King's birthday) through March (Women's History Month) or any time you choose to student the history of African Americans. The books were gathered to be accessible to students Kindergarten through fifth grade. I separated them into two text sets. "Text Set 1" contains books for students kindergarten through fifth grade. "Text Set 2" is for the older reader due to more mature content.. Also indicated are the ATOS level, recommen

Attached is a listing of myON books that support my school's expectations related to the mnemonics of SOAR and PRIDE. The books were gathered to be accessible to students Kindergarten through fifth grade. I separated them into two text sets. "Text Set 1" contains books Lexile 420-820 which is approximately the grade 2-3 reading band. "Text Set 2" is for the older reader, Lexile 600ish to 1,010 (grade 4-5 band). Also indicated are the ATOS level, recommended grade level, AR points, audio tim

A fun tongue-in-cheek letter to parents of students getting ready to take a high-stakes writing assessment such as PARCC or FSA (Florida Standards Assessment).