Reading Unit 2

Mystery: Foundational Skills in Disguise

Topics Covered in Unit 3: I Can...

• I can decode words with common Latin suffixes.
• I can decode multi-syllable words.
• I can recognize the vocabulary main idea, key details and recount.
• I can identify key details.
• I can determine the importance of key details.
• I can identify the main topic a multi-paragraph text
• I can determine the main idea of a text.
• I can recount the key details of a text.
• I can explain how the key details support the main idea.
• I can summarize the text.
• I can recognize the vocabulary events, chronological order, cause and effect, historical event, scientific ideas, and technical procedures.
• I can identify historical events or steps in technical procedures in a text.
• I can order historical events or steps in technical procedures in a text.
• I can identify scientific ideas or concepts in a text.
• I can determine cause and effect.
• I can describe the relationship between a series of events in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence and cause/effect.
• I can describe the relationship between a series of scientific ideas or concepts in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.
• I can describe the relationship between a series of steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, cause/effect.
• I can explain events, procedures, ideas or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.
• I can recognize the vocabulary cause and effect, chronological order, and compare and contrast.
• I can identify key details.
• I can identify main idea(s).
• I can identify text structures (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third) used in a text.
• I can describe the logical connection between particular sentences in a text ( e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third) in a sequence.
• I can describe the logical connection between particular paragraphs in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third) in a sequence.
• I can describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts or information in a text or part of a text.

Please use MyON as a reading resource! It is a digital library avilable to your student 24/7 on ClassLink. Students will need to take a diagnostic to determine an appropriate Lexile reading level if it is their first time accessing the program. Then, MyON will suggest books that meet that student's individual reading needs. 

As always, students can use iReady Reading to continue developing their reading progress in phonological awareness, phonics, high frequency words, vocabulary, literacy comprehension, and nonfiction comprehension.