Investigative Reading
Investigative Reading creates a safe learning environment for students to explore and examine challenging texts. Both a reading and speaking activity, Investigative Reading provides opportunities for students to practice questioning, evaluating, summarizing, and clarifying information while modeling for others how to think in these ways.
Investigative Reading Step-By-Step Process
Plan your lesson
Learning
Pathway
Pathway
Planning Journal
Teach the skill
Instructions
Diagram
Student Activity
Interactive Lesson
Differentiate and support learning
Progress Cards
Reading Rubrics
Assess and track growth
Rubric
Performance Tracker
Teacher Reflection
Practice skills in all subjects
Fiction
History
Science
Math
Student samples
Argument Sample
Literacy Standards In Action
We've mapped our literacy lessons and reading, speaking, and writing skills to state standards, Common Core, and NGSS. The standards are "the what" to teach. Our lessons are "the how" to meet the expectations defined by the standards. Click on the links below to view our quick reference table that maps standards to literacy lessons.
R2
Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
R3
Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
R5
Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and large portions of the text relate to each other and the whole.
SL1
Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
SL6
Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and communicative tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.
L4
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases by using context clues, analyzing meaningful word parts, and consulting general and specialized reference materials, as appropriate.
