Reading Teachers will review of all of the assessed reading genres ( poetry, fiction, literary non - fiction, expository, and procedural ). Teachers will also continue intense instruction on reading strategies, comprehension, inferencing, and drawing conclusions – all supported with evidence from the text.
PURRS
Guided
Reading Strategy
P- Picture walk, preview,
predict
· Read the title and view the pictures
to help with your prediction.
· Make a prediction based on the title,
pictures, headings and captions. Explain your prediction, don't just restate
the title.
· Preview the story vocabulary. Pay
attention to unfamiliar vocabulary words. Discuss meaning using context clues.
(notice prefixes, suffixes, multiple meaning words)
U- Understand the genre
(Literary text or Informational text)
· Literary text
Fiction
(Traditional literature, fantasy, science fiction, realistic fiction,
historical fiction or mystery) Literary Nonfiction is information about a
person (Autobiographies, biographies, letters, journals, or diaries) Poetry,
Drama, Media Literacy
· Informational text
Expository
(Texts that provide facts about a variety of topics such as sports, animals,
geography, space weather etc.) Persuasive, Procedural, Media Literacy
(Magazines, newspaper, websites etc.)
R- Read
· Group popcorn, partner read, or independent reading
R-Relate
· Make a personal connection to the text
· Text to Text
· Text to self
· Text to world
S-Summarize
· Fiction- Somebody, Wanted, But, So,
Then graphic organizer
· Nonfiction- Who, What, When, Where,
Why, How graphic organizer