5th Grade Daily Reading Ready® - JANUARY
If you loved our 5th Grade Reading STAAR Wars© Task Cards, you’re going to love our new DAILY READING READY© monthly units, as well! DAILY READING READY© is a standards-based program that follows a research-based model of continuous, systematic instruction, building from simple to complex to help students learn and retain skills. In this unit for January, students practice reading & vocabulary skills in 10-15 minute daily lessons. Skills taught in this unit include:
•author’s purpose & craft
•compare & contrast
•context clues
•dictionary/glossary/thesaurus
•figurative language
•genre – informational/expository, fiction, literary nonfiction, poetry
•images/words/graphics/sounds to impact meaning
•literary language & devices
•main idea & supporting details
•making inferences & drawing conclusions
•making connections between literary & informational texts
•making predictions
•meaning of unfamiliar/multiple-meaning words
•paired passages
•poetry elements & structure
•point-of-view
•root words & affixes
•summary/paraphrasing
•supporting understanding with textual evidence
•text features & graphics

