Honors Reading

Welcome to 7th grade honors reading!  This year you will be actively engaged in learning the following reading strategies and concepts: retelling, recalling, predicting, sequencing, making connections, determining what’s important, summarizing, clarifying, inferring, visualizing, asking questions, cause and effect, compare and contrast, fact verses opinion, conflict resolution, analyzing, synthesizing, literary elements, and drama.

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Reading Curriculum:
This year we will read novels, short stories, plays, and poetry as a class.  In addition, class time will be set aside regularly for you to read books of your choice.  You may check books out at the library, borrow one from me, or bring books from home.  (You also have the option to buy books from book clubs each month.)  EVERYONE is EXPECTED to have a book for class each day and I will have a place for you to keep your books in the classroom.

Book Projects:
Each month you are required to read TWO books.  You are to complete a book project for one of your two books.  For the other, you will write a letter to a friend.  See the more detailed requirements for additional information.  At least one book project will be presented orally during the course of the school year.

Goals and Methods:
-To build independent, in-depth readers
      Monthly independent reading projects
      Reading projects that require critical analysis and depth of reading
      Read-alouds with literary analysis

-To build critical thinking skills
      Analogies
     Games and activities that promote flexible thinking
      Higher order questioning and discussion

-Vocabulary Development
      All School Vocabulary Program across curriculum
      Vocabulary through the Classical Roots
      Exponential rather than linear vocabulary development

-Researching Skills (Career Study)
      Projects that promote organizational skills
     Projects that promote ethical researching skills

State Standards - Reading

 State Goal 1:  Read with understanding and fluency.
  1.A  Apply word analysis and vocabulary skills to comprehend selections.
  1.B  Apply reading strategies to improve understanding and fluency.
  1.C  Comprehend a broad range of reading materials.
State Goal 2:  Read and understand literature representative of various societies, eras, and ideas.
  2.A  Understand how literary elements and techniques are used to convey meaning.
  2.B  Read and interpret a variety of literary works.
State Goal 4:  Listen and speak effectively in a variety of situations.
  4.A  Listen effectively in formal and informal situations.
  4.B  Speak effectively using language appropriate to the situation and audience.