Sabold Elementary School

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Sabold Elementary School

• Title One Literacy
• Grades 2, 3, and 4

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At all levels, I focus on

• Decoding
• Comprehension
• Writing

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At all levels, I strive to

• establish a positive relationship with the
  children
• identify each childs individual strengths and
  weaknesses
• connect with classroom instruction
• have fun

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• I do individualize the instruction as much as
  possible but, there are some general areas, at
  each grade level, that I emphasize throughout the
  year.

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In Second Grade
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Focus on decoding strategies through

• Guided reading and repeated readings
• Phonics readers
• Sight words
• Word sorts
• Rhyming with word families
• Wonder Word Bookmark

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Focus on comprehension through

• Guided retellings and summaries
• Developing the main idea
• Identifying details
• Identifying story elements
• Building fluency
• Repeated reading
• Attending to punctuation
• Identifying quotation marks

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Focus on writing through

• Responses to reading
• Variety of in-class activities

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In Third Grade
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Focus on decoding strategies through

• Guided reading and repeated readings
• Wonderword Bookmark
• Multi-syllabic word work/decoding
• Syllabication
• Chunking and rhyming
• Identifying basic affixes
• Word sorts
• Using the context

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Focus on Comprehension through
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Direct instruction in comprehension skills and
strategies

• Guided retellings
• Guided summaries
• Identifying story elements
• Identifying the main idea
• Identifying details

• Making inferences
• Sequencing events
• Questioning
• Verifying
• Clarifying

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• Fluency
• Rubric
• Readers theater
• Tape recordings
• Importance of punctuation
• Understanding Dialogue

• Vocabulary
• Word meanings
• Homonyms
• Words in context

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Focus on writing through

• Responses to reading
• Variety of in-class activities

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In Fourth Grade
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Focus on decoding strategies through

• Guided reading and repeated readings
• Self monitoring and self correcting
• Use of context clues

• Multi-syllabic word work/decoding
• Syllabication, chunking and rhyming
• Identifying affixes
• Word sorts

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Focus on Comprehension through

• Direct instruction and literature circle
  discussions on the following comprehension skills
  and strategies
• Retelling and summarizing
• Identifying the main idea and supporting details
• Identifying story elements
• Making inferences, generalizations and drawing
  conclusions
• Sequencing events and identifying cause and
  effect
• Questioning/Verifying/Clarifying
• Visualizing

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• Instruction on and discussion of non-fiction
  characteristics and comprehension strategies
• Reading text books
• Identifying important information in non-fiction
  text

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• Fluency
• Repeated readings
• Self monitoring and self correcting
• Readers theater
• Tape recordings
• Using expression and punctuation
• Understanding dialogue

• Vocabulary
• Word meanings
• multiple meaning words
• metaphors and idioms
• meanings of affixes, roots and word parts
• Contextual analysis

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Focus on writing through

• Responses to reading
• Variety of in class activities

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