Strategic Reading
Rising Grades 5 to 6
Read articles, essays, and stories, practice close reading and note-taking, and write summaries and interpretations.
Students learn and apply reading strategies and tools including close reading, looking for cause and effect, note-taking, outlining, paraphrasing, questioning, skimming, summarizing, and synthesizing.
Students write and revise responses to readings from newspapers, essays, biographies, speeches, and short stories.
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