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
Check for Understanding
Back up and reread
Use prior knowledge to connect with text
Use prior knowledge to connect with text
Make and adjust predictions; use text to confirm
Infer and support with evidence
Make a picture or mental image
Monitor and fix up
Ask questions throughout the reading process
Determine and analyze author's purpose and support with text
Recognize and explain cause-and-effect relationships
Accuracy
Abundant easy reading
Use the pictures... Do the words and pictures match?
Use beginning and ending sounds
Chunk letters and sounds together
Skip the word, then come back
Recognize words at sight
Fluency
Voracious reading (F)
Read appropriate level texts that are a good fit
Reread text
Adjust and apply different reading rates to match text
Use punctuation to enhance phrasing and prosody (end marks, commas, etc)
Read text as the author would say it, conveying the meaning or feeling
Expand Vocabulary
Voracious reading (E)
Tune in to interesting words and use new vocabulary in speaking and writing
Use prior knowledge and context to predict and confirm meaning
Use word parts to determine meaning of words (prefixes, suffixes, origins, abbreviations)
Ask someone to define the word for you
Use dictionaries, thesauruses, and glossaries as tools

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