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RED405: Reading Lab 10 (2012-2013)
CURRICULUM PROGRAM: English Language Arts
COURSE TITLE: Reading Lab 10
CALENDAR YEAR: 2012-2013
GRADE LEVEL: 10
CODE: RED405
TYPE: EL
CREDITS:
COURSE LENGTH: 36 weeks
Major Concepts/Content: Improve reading achievement for students not reading at grade level through the use of a whole group instructional model with small group rotations:
Whole Group Literacy Instruction with technology support providing models and Lexile leveled text passages for instruction
- Modeled or independent reading using leveled literature to model or practice good reading strategies
Small Group instruction provides daily student-teacher interaction to build skills that facilitate the reading of increasingly complex materials. Examples include:
- Vocabulary Development-general, technical, content-specific
- Following Directions at increasingly complex levels
- Drawing Conclusions
- Using Effective Study Skills-note taking, outlining, graphic organizers
- Reading for Recreation and Problem Solving
Major topics to be studied include the essential components or reading: vocabulary development, building fluency, comprehension, and structural analysis, study/reference skills and reading in the content areas.
Major Instructional Activities: nstructional activities will be provided in a classroom setting using
- Content area text
- Tradebooks-Lexile leveled to match student's instructional level
- Supplementary and reference materials
- Software support
Major Evaluative Techniques: Assessment instruments used will illustrate strengths as well as needs of students:
- Assessment on class assignments, written work, oral discussions, class participation
- Performance Assessment: Students demonstrate knowledge of course-related reading skills by applying and using specific reading strategies
- Self-Assessment on skills and comprehension
- Weekly conference with teacher to identify goals and assess progress to date
Essential Expectations: Upon successful completion of Reading Lab 10 course, the student should be able to:
Upon completion of the reading support course, students should be able to:
- Apply higher-level comprehension skills
- Practice study techniques
- Identify the meaning of specialized words in the content area
- Identify the stated and implied main ideas
- Articulate conclusions about personal reading tastes
- Read a wide range of print and nonprint texts