Middle School Reading - Connecting Thinking to Reading

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Middle School

How do we develop world-class critical reading instruction in the middle grades?”

“How do we strengthen cognitive functions that are prerequisites for challenging reading?”

“How do we foster middle grade students’ love for reading?”

“How do we use writing to enable students to analytically explore what they have read?

 

iRi’s Middle School Reading programs are best suited for teachers across curriculum areas who are passionate about dramatically improving critical thinking skills and reading achievement for all students.

Connecting Thinking to Reading

  • Mediate those cognitive functions which enable reading comprehension of fiction and non-fiction: problem recognition, relevant information selection, spontaneous comparative behavior, distinguishing spatial and temporal relations, and conservation of constancies
  • Help Middle Grade students make connections among facts, concepts, people, and events
  • Use simple graphic organizers to sharpen student perception of relationships (e.g., news analysis, chain of events, story maps, prediction trees, etc.)
  • Cultivate Middle Grade students’ skills to ask significant questions re: meaning of texts
  • Design guided reading and lessons that motivate intrinsic love of reading and skills as critical readers
  • Develop high power lessons that integrate best practices for improving comprehension
  • Evaluate students’ increased reading comprehension