Reading Curriculum Evening Overview

2.  MCPS blog
◦ Information for Parents
◦ Supporting Reading

3.  Curriculum for Excellence:
To show my understanding, I can respond to literal, inferential and
evaluative questions and other close reading tasks and can create
different kinds of questions of my own.
ENG 2-17a
 Importance of fluency, expression and comprehension.
 Questioning aids comprehension.
Asking questions:
 Helps readers interact with text.
 Sets a purpose for reading.
 Requires readers to go beyond the text.
“Questioning is the strategy that propels readers on. Who, after all, would
continue reading something if they had no questions about it?”
–Stephanie Harvey

4.  Before
◦ Look at cover, titles, features
“I wonder who she is?”
“When does this take place?”
“I wonder what’s going to happen.”
 During
◦ “Who is talking here?”
◦ “What does that word mean?”
◦ “Why did ____ do that?”
◦ Why did the author put that in there?
 After
◦ “I wonder what really happened to___.”
◦ “What else can I find out about ____?”
◦ “What do you think will happen next?”

5.  Curriculum for Excellence:
I regularly select and read, listen to or watch texts
which I enjoy and find interesting, and I can
explain why I prefer certain texts and authors.
LIT 1-11a / LIT 2-11a
 Reading for enjoyment can benefit:
◦ Reading attainment and writing ability.
◦ Breadth of vocabulary.
◦ Positive reading attitudes.
◦ Greater confidence as a reader.
◦ Reading in later life.
◦ Increases general knowledge and a better understanding
of other cultures.

6.  Children can benefit from reading a range of
texts not just fiction books.