Teaching Points - Reading
Click, Clack Moo Cows That Type
Cause and Effect – Readers identify the cause
and effect in texts by asking themselves these
questions: “What happened?” (effect) and”Why
did it happen?” (cause)
Visualize – Readers visualize by forming
pictures in their mind as they read.
Text Features – Readers know
exactly when things happen by reading a
calendar.
Cause and Effect / Making Connections – Readers
make connections between texts by comparing
the causes and effects of events in the stories.
Cause and Effect – Maintain Skill
Teaching Points - Reading
Splish! Splash! Animal Baths
Compare and Contrast - Readers
compare and contrast by telling how things are
alike (compare) and telling how things are
different (contrast).
Setting and Characters - Readers recognize
characteristics of a play by seeing a list of
characters and an explanation of the setting at the
beginning of the play.
Compare and Contrast – Readers make
connections between texts by comparing and
contrasting how things are alike and different.
Main Idea and Details: Use
Illustrations/Photos - Maintain Skill
Teaching Points - Reading
Goose’s Story
Cause and Effect – Readers identify the cause
and effect in the story by asking themselves
questions such as: “What happened?” (effect)
and “Why did it happen?” (cause)
Text Feature: Maps - Readers learn about
specific places by reading a map in nonfiction
texts.
Cause and Effect / Making Connections –
Readers make connections between two
selections by comparing the causes and effects.
Plot Development: Make Inferences –
Maintain Skill
Teaching Points - Reading
A Way to Help Planet Earth
Main Idea and Details – Readers identify the
main idea and details in a selection by
recognizing the main idea is the most important
idea and that details tell more about the main
idea.
Text Features: Changes in Print: Sidebar,
Bold Type, Italic Type – Readers use text
features to get information by noticing sidebars,
bold type, or italics.
Test Strategy: Right There –
Readers use the “Right There” test strategy by
finding key words in the question and skimming
the text to find the answer.
Main Idea and Details - Readers make
connections between the main ideas,, details, and
topics by comparing two articles and the topic
they are about.
Retell Events In Order – Maintain Skill
Teaching Points - Reading
Super Storms
Cause and Effect: Make Predictions – Readers
make a prediction by using clues in the text, the
pictures, and what they already know to decide
what will happen next in the story or article.
Monitor Comprehension: Reread Readers monitor comprehension by stopping to
make sure they understand what they are reading
and rereading when parts of the text become
confusing.
Literary Elements: Repetition and Word
Choice - Readers enjoy poetry by noticing the
repetition of words or phrases, and by noticing
the word choice that creates the mood of the
poem.
Cause and Effect: Make Predictions /
Connections – Readers make connections
between selections by comparing the predictions
they made in two different selections.
Cause and Effect - Maintain Skill
Teaching Points - Reading
Nutik, the Wolf Pup
Plot Development: Make Inferences –
Readers make inferences by using clues in the
story, pictures, and what they already know to
figure out what the author didn’t tell them.
Adjust Reading Rate – Readers adjust reading
rate by reading more slowly to really understand
what they are reading.
Text Feature: Heads (Headings) – Readers
figure out the topic of a section in an
encyclopedia article by reading the head
(heading).
Plot Development: Make
Inferences/Connections Readers make
connections between texts by comparing the
inferences they made while reading the different
selections.
Plot Development: Make Predictions Maintain Skill
Teaching Points - Reading
Dig, Wait, Listen: A Desert Toad’s Tale
Author’s Purpose – Readers identify
author’s purpose by deciding if the author is
telling a story (entertain), teaching you something
(inform), or trying to get you to think a certain
way (persuade).
Summarize - Readers summarize by retelling
the most important parts in their own words.
Text Feature: Charts – Readers get information
from charts by reading facts that have been
organized into rows and columns.
Author’s Purpose / Make Connections –
Readers make connections between texts by
identifying the author’s purposes for writing
them.
Compare and Contrast – Maintain Skill
Teaching Points - Reading
Pushing Up the Sky
Problem and Solution – Readers identify the
problem and solution in a story by figuring out
what the characters want to change, fix, or figure
out, and by finding the way this problem is
solved at the end of the story.
Text Feature: Interview – Readers know how to
read an interview (a series of questions asked by
one person and answered by another) by looking
for the Q in front of the question and the A before
the answer.
Problem and Solution / Make Connections –
Readers make connections between stories by
comparing the problems and solutions.
Visualize – Readers visualize by forming
pictures in their mind as they read.
Main Idea and Details – Maintain Skill
Teaching Points - Reading
Columbus Explorers New Lands
Main Idea and Details – Readers identify main
idea and details by finding the most important
idea in a selection (main idea) and looking for
sentences that tell more about the main idea
(details).
Summarize – Readers summarize by retelling
the most important parts in their own words.
Study Skill: Using the Internet –
Readers use the internet to do research by using a
URL, search engine, and home pages.
Test Strategy: Think and Search –
Readers use the “Think and Search” test strategy
by thinking about what the question is asking and
then searching the selection for parts that answer
it.
Main Idea and Details – Making Connections –
Readers make connections between the main
ideas and details in selections by comparing the
two articles and the topic they are about.
Cause and Effect – Maintain Skill
Teaching Points - Reading
The Ugly Vegetables
Retell Events in Order – Readers retell events in
order by telling about the important parts of the
story in the correct time order and sometimes
using clue words: first, next, soon, then, and last.
Text Feature: Written Directions – Readers
follow written directions by reading the
numbered steps that tell you how to make or do
something.
Retell Events in Order / Make Connections –
Readers make connections between selections by
comparing the sequence of events in different
selections.
Problem and Solution – Maintain Skill
Teaching Points - Reading
The Moon
Compare and Contrast – Readers compare and
contrast by telling how things are alike (compare)
and telling how things are different (contrast).
Literary Elements: Personification and
Imagery - Readers enjoy poetry by recognizing
when the author uses personification (a way of
speaking about a thing as if it were a person) and
imagery (words that make a picture in the
reader’s mind).
Compare and Contrast / Make Connections –
Readers make connections between texts by
comparing and contrasting information from two
different selections.
Summarize – Readers summarize by retelling
the most important parts in their own words.
Author’s Purpose – Maintain Skill
Teaching Points - Reading
Mice and Beans
Compare and Contrast: Fantasy and Reality
– Readers distinguish between fantasy and reality
by comparing the events and characters in the
story to those in real life by asking these
questions: “Could these events happen in real
life? Are these characters like real people?”
Text Feature: Written Directions – Readers
can follow a recipe by reading the written
directions or steps that tell you how to prepare
the food.
Compare and Contrast: Fantasy and Reality /
Make Connections - Readers make connections
between texts by comparing the characters and
events to determine if they are both fantasy or
both reality.
Plot Development: Make Predictions –
Maintain Skill
Teaching Points - Reading
Stirring Up Memories
Main Idea and Details: Draw Conclusions –
Readers draw conclusions by thinking about two
or more details in the story to come to a new
understanding about a selection.
Literary Element: Onomatopoeia – Readers
enjoy poetry by recognizing when authors
include onomatopoeia (a word that sounds like
the object or action) and word play (using words
in a fun way).
Main Idea and Details: Draw Conclusions/
Make Connections – Readers make connections
between stories by comparing possible
conclusions they have made.
Author’s Purpose: Make Inferences –
Maintain Skill: Author’s Purpose: Make
Inferences.
Teaching Points - Reading
Music of the Stone Age
Author’s Purpose – Readers determine if the
author’s purpose is to entertain, to inform, to
persuade, by looking for clues in the text so they
know if they need to adjust their reading rate.
Choosing Research Materials –
Readers choose research materials by deciding
which resource would have the type of
information they need.
Test Strategy: Author and Me – Readers use
the “Author and Me” test strategy by figuring out
what the question asks, finding what the author
tells them, and combining it with what they
already know to find the best answer to the
question.
Author’s Purpose / Making Connections –
Readers make connections between texts by
comparing the reasons the author wrote each one.
Compare and Contrast – Maintain Skill
Teaching Points - Reading
African-American Inventors
Compare and Contrast – Readers
compare and contrast by telling how things are
alike (compare) and telling how things are
different (contrast).
Text Feature: Time Lines – Readers use a time
line to get information about events that happen
in the order they take place by reading the dates,
captions, and titles of a time line.
Compare and Contrast – Making Connections
Readers make connections between selections by
comparing and contrasting the information in
them.
Main Idea and Details: Draw Conclusions –
Maintain Skill
Teaching Points - Reading
Babu’s Song
Plot Development: Character, Setting –
Readers analyze a story by noticing what the
characters say and do and by noticing how the
setting (place and time) affects what the
characters say and do.
Text Feature: Maps – Readers learn where
places are located by reading a map.
Plot Development: Character, Setting / Make
Connections – Readers make connections
between texts by comparing the characters and
setting in two different selections.
Monitor Comprehension: Reread – Readers
monitor comprehension by stopping to make sure
they understand what they are reading and
rereading when parts of the text become
confusing.
Compare and Contrast: Fantasy / Reality –
Maintain Skill