Lesson 3: Common Core Connection

I chose to look at standard 3.RI.1. It refers students to ask questions as they are reading, as well as answer questions and defending their answers with the text. 

(Retrieved from: http://doe.sd.gov/octe/documents/ELA_DT_4a.pdf)

The ebook Reading Comprehension Success in 20 Minutes a Day gives provides great strategies for meeting this standard. As the title mentions, it isn’t one lesson but rather a culmination of many smaller practices everyday that make a reader strong in comprehension and application. One of the beginning lessons explained how kids need to be active readers. Building connections in the mind is critical to the questioning component. Too often I hear kids say, “I read it but I don’t really get it or remember it.” Their eyes skim the words, but they do nothing more with it than that. So, working through some examples in this eBook that focus on building connections and reading actively with question words would be my first lesson on teaching this standard.