Ms. Howard's Reading Objectives

Ms. Howard's Students will...

1. Read and analyze a variety of texts
2. Learn and identify the elements of fiction
3. Identify authors’ purposes of writing
4. Know and identify the genres of writing
5. Use a variety of graphic organizers to understand texts
6. Identify and distinguish main ideas and supporting details
7. Establish personal reading improvement goals
8. Increase personal lexicon (vocabulary)
9. Increase reading fluency and comprehension
10. Identify different styles of organizing texts
11. Learn and apply personal reading strategies
12. Know and identify common literary devices

Ms. Howard's TAKS Specific Reading Objectives

Objective 1: 

Ms. Howard's Students will show a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts:

1. Word identification using roots, prefixes, and suffixes
2. Vocabulary development using context clues, and recognition of literal (denotative) and figurative/situational (connotative) meanings
3. Finding and identify main idea and basic story lines
4. Organizing ideas:  story progression, facts and details
5.  Summarizing points and main ideas

Objective 2:

Ms. Howard's Students will apply knowledge of literary elements to understand culturally diverse written texts:

1. Analyze characters:  point of view, motivation, conflicts and changes (dynamic vs. static)
2. Find and identify plot elements – “plot chart stuff”
3. Identify and understand literary devices:  similes, metaphors, flashback, symbolism, foreshadowing, imagery, and personification.

Objective 3:

Ms. Howard's Students will use a variety of reading strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts:

1. Cause and effect
2. Chronological organization of events
3. Similarities and differences
4. Graphic organizers use:  timelines, charts, webs, graphs, etc.
5. Identify genres:  author’s purpose:  inform, persuade, entertain
6. Identify genre forms:  stories, plays, poems, etc.
7. Understand how author’s choice of Point of View affects text

Objective 4:

Ms. Howard's Students will apply critical-thinking skills to analyze culturally diverse written texts:

• Make inferences using text evidence for support
• Know facts vs. opinion
• Find text evidence to support ideas
• Connect ideas and themes when comparing different texts
• Recognize how an author chooses to organize text:  cause/effect, compare/contrast, chronologically, giving clues for reader to find main ideas (deductive reasoning)
• Recognize how tone and mood create feelings in the reader and make an effect

• Home
• Ms. Howard's Blog
• Sixth Grade Page
• Seventh Grade Page
• Eighth Grade Page
• Calendar Page
• About Ms. Howard
• Reading Objectives for All Classes
• Contact Ms. Howard