How to Teach Reading Lesson Plans: Seventh Grade Reading
- Reads orally with fluency based on rate, intonation, phrasing, and naturalness
- Self-corrects when reading miscues
- Reads fluently with understanding
- Utilizes prior knowledge
- Utilizes root words, prefixes, and suffixes
- Decodes unknown words using the three-cueing system (e.g., semantics/context meaning, syntax/sentence structure, graphophonic/sound-symbol correspondence)
- Uses spelling patterns and inflectional endings
- Utilizes figurative language/sound devices (e.g., rhyming, alliteration, onomatopoeia)
- Spells frequently-used words correctly
- Interprets analogies
- Skims and scans to locate key information
- Rereads to determine meaning
- Utilizes parts of a book (e.g., table of contents, index, glossary, title page, headings, and captions)
- Utilizes visual aids to completely understand the passage (e.g., picture, list, table, chart, graph)
- Identifies and applies knowledge of organizational patterns (e.g., sequence, cause and effect, comparison/contrast)
- Summarizes main idea and supporting details
- Makes predictions, infers information, and draws conclusions
- Summarizes information
- Locates and combines information from reference sources (e.g., dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, atlas, computer)
- Retells a story
- Analyzes characters (e.g., physical characteristics, character traits, relationships)
- Identifies story elements (e.g., character, setting, conflict, climax, theme, mood, resolution)
- Interprets the meaning of passages
- Identifies characteristics of genres
- Recognizes author’s tone (e.g., humorous, persuasive, ominous); purpose (e.g., entertain, persuade, inform); and point of view (e.g., first person, third person, omniscient)
- Recognizes figurative language/literary devices (e.g., metaphors, similes, personification, and hyperbole)
- Connects literature to real-life situations
- Compares and contrasts informative and persuasive passages
- Determines the author’s position (author’s personal view) and defends/supports with details
- Recognizes persuasive techniques (e.g., bias, slant, misinformation, propaganda)
- Identifies essential information in directions
- Supplies relevant information for forms
- Explains how organizational aids and/or graphics relate to the content of the text
- Interprets specialized vocabulary in a context
- Determines the sequence of activities in a procedure
- Locates and applies appropriate information (e.g., phone book, manuals, order forms)
- Identifies information which provides additional clarity (e.g., bold-faced print, illustrations, italics)
- Listens to and comprehends oral reading
- Recalls main idea, details, and facts
- Responds to peers/teachers after listening
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