Brief Focus Lessons

Designed from the instructional protocol, these lessons take on a purposeful and explicit tone, last about 7-10 minutes, and maximize student potential for engagement and retention.

Comprehension
Use prior knowledge to predict and connect with text
Use prior knowledge to predict and connect with text
Check for understanding; monitor and self-correct
Back up and reread
Make and adjust mental images; use text to confirm
Ask questions throughout the reading process
Ask questions throughout the reading process
Make and adjust predictions; use text to confirm
Infer and support with evidence
Determine and analyze author's purpose and support with text
Recognize and explain cause-and-effect relationships
Accuracy
Use beginning and ending sounds
Chunk letters and sounds together
Recognize high-frequency words on sight
Skip the word, then come back
Fluency
Read texts that are a good fit
Use punctuation to enhance phrasing and prosody
Adjust and apply different reading rates to match text
Reread text
Read voraciously (F)
Expand Vocabulary
Tune in to interesting words
Use prior knowledge and context clues
Use word parts
Use reference tools such as dictionary, thesauruses, and glossaries
Ask someone to define the word for you
Read voraciously (E)

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