Topic outline

• Reading Intervention with Mrs. Ford
  

  Reading Intervention with Mrs. Ford

  • Read 180/System 44 software link URL
  • HW Reading Log File
  • Outside Reading project-cereal box File
  • Collection link Forum
  • Informative Essay Outline URL
  • News forum
  • EdPuzzle Sign Up URL
• Workshop 1
  

  Workshop 1

  Mindset/Stand Up

  

  Meet three inspiring people who overcame extreme hardship, prejudice, and abuse when they were children.  Now they work tirelessly so that other children can enjoy the rights they themselves were denied.

  Comprehension Focus:

  Main Idea and Details

  Read for Details

  Analyze

  Writing:

  Informational paragraph/essay

  Conventions:

  Identifying sentences and fragments

  Using End Punctuation

  • Mindset Survey URL
  • Additional Articles:

  • Forums:

  • The Fight Against Child Slavery: James Kofi Annan Forum
  • Quizzes:

  • Writing Resources:

  • Immigration:Stories URL
• Workshop 2
  

  Workshop 2

  Water Fight

  

  Droughts and water shortages threaten Earth's supply of freshwater.  It's a global problem. Are there any solutions?

  Comprehension Focus:

  Central idea and details

  Cause and effect

  Making inferences

  Identify Text Structure

  Writing:

  Argumentative Paragraph/ Argumentative Essay

  Conventions:

  Prefix in and un

  Multiple meaning words

  Transitions

  Run on sentences

  • Additional Articles:

  • Fresh Drinking Water on Its Way- Potable Water File
  • Desalinization File
  • Desalination Prompt URL
  • Rubric Desalination URL
  • Making New Wetlands With Help From Beavers File
  • Forums:

  • Water Conservation Forum
  • Water Conservation 2 Forum
  • Quizzes:

  • Kahoot URL
  • Writing Resources:

  • Drought Paragraph Rubric URL
  • Summary Templates File
• 

  

  In these texts, readers discover some of the consequences people face when they change or hide their identity.

  Comprehension Focus:

  Story Elements

  Read for Details

  Evaluate

  Writing:

  Literary Analysis

  Conventions:

  Correcting Run-On Sentences

  Using Correct Word Order

  • React and Write-Louisa, Please Come Home File
  • Lesson on Theme File
  • Theme- Graphic organizer File
  • Theme- Teamwork File
  • Correct word order practice File
  • Wrap-up project-Role-playing File
  • Rskills Practice-Reading Closely File
  • Forum Posts:

  • React and Write- Forum
  • Additional Reading:

  • Stretch Text Growing Up Multicultural- Graphic organizer File
  • Stretch Text Growing up Multicultural- The story File
  • Quizzes:

  • Vocabulary Workshop 3 Quiz
  • Skills quiz for Workshop 3
  • Writing Resources:

  • Literary Analysis Rubric File
  • Literary Analysis Reflection URL
  • Revision Passage File
• 

  

  In these texts, readers discover how children around the world are forced to do hard labor to earn a living.

  Comprehension Focus:

  Summary

  Writing:

  Informational summary

  Conventions:

  Prefixes/Suffixes

  Multiple-meaning words

  • Rskills practice Chunking long sentences File
  • Wrap-up project Workshop 4 File
  • Additional Articles:

  • Stretch Text- We are Free; Passage File
  • Stretch Text- We are Free; Graphic Organizer File
  • Stretch Text- We are Free; Lesson File
  • Report Says Children are Getting Sick Working on American Tobacco Farms URL
  • Many Afghan Children Must Work Hard for Low Pay to Help Feed Their Familes URL
  • It's a Hard Fight to End Child Labor Abuse on West Africa's Cocoa Farms URL
  • Forums:

  • Dark side of chocolate Forum
  • Working in the Fields Forum
  • Child Labor Around the World Forum
  • Quizzes:

  • Vocabulary Quiz
  • Writing Resources:

  • React and Write-Working in the Fields File
  • Summary template File
  • Summary Rubric File
  • Revision passage File
  • Informative Essay Body Paragraph Chart File