Moreover, the pattern of movement, the
plot, as it were, of the stories about Jesus provides the basic
structure of the movement of all Christian celebrations or enactments of the
practice of worship.
*** Includes 129 original reading passages and comprehension questions *** *** Includes 30 fluency passages *** *** Includes 11 Reading Posters *** - character, setting, realism and fantasy, main idea and details, cause and effect, author's purpose, compare and contrast, sequence,
plot, theme, and drawing conclusions *** Includes four level charts for teachers, parents, or students, so that they can keep track of their progress *** *** Includes a roster - words correct per minute for each student / child for fall / winter / spring *** Skills addressed in this resource: # 1 - think and search # 2 - author and me # 3 - analyze text
structure # 4 - identify setting # 5 - identify character # 6 - identify
plot # 7 - make and confirm predictions # 8 - cause and effect # 9 - compare and contrast # 10 - retell # 11 - classify and categorize # 12 - alliteration # 13 - rhyme and rhythmic patterns # 14 - onomatopoeia # 15 - similes # 16 - repetition and word choice # 17 - sensory language # 18 - study skills # 19 - text features # 20 - genres This is GREAT
practice for testing while also providing a lot of fluency
practice!
If you give your students
practice during the first half of the year with analyzing the details of a text by looking closely at the
plot, vocabulary, syntax,
structure, and point of view through multiple reads, you are setting them up to be able to do this more independently during the second half of the school year.