Middle School
Reading
Syllabus for Reading and English
Reading Objectives and TAKS Reading Objectives
Reading Objectives:
- Read and analyze a variety of texts
- Learn and identify the elements of fiction
- Identify authors’ purposes of writing
- Know and identify the genres of writing
- Use a variety of graphic organizers to understand texts
Identify and distinguish main ideas and supporting details
- Establish personal reading improvement goals
- Increase personal lexicon (vocabulary)
- Increase reading fluency and comprehension
- Identify different styles of organizing texts
- Learn and apply personal reading strategies
- Know and identify common literary devices
TAKS Reading Objectives:
Objective 1:
TLW show a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts:
- Word identification using roots, prefixes, and suffixes
- Vocabulary development using context clues, and recognition of literal (denotative) and figurative/situational (connotative) meanings
- Finding and identify main idea and basic story lines
- Organizing ideas: story progression, facts and details
- Summarizing points and main ideas
Objective 2:
TLW apply knowledge of literary elements to understand culturally diverse written texts:
- Analyze characters: point of view, motivation, conflicts and changes (dynamic vs. static)
- Find and identify plot elements – “plot chart stuff”
- Identify and understand literary devices: similes, metaphors, flashback, symbolism, foreshadowing, imagery, and personification.
Objective 3:
TLW use a variety of reading strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts:
- Cause and effect
- Chronological organization of events
- Similarities and differences
- Graphic organizers use: timelines, charts, webs, graphs, etc.
- Identify genres: author’s purpose: inform, persuade, entertain
- Identify genre forms: stories, plays, poems, etc.
- Understand how author’s choice of Point of View affects text
Objective 4:
TLW 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.
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