iReady!

Purpose

100

This is my reading goal for this week.

What is learning what I need to focus on to become a better reader?

200

Teachers want to support students' learning with specific skills.

What is identifying what individual students and groups of students need to learn to improve their reading?

300

I will improve my reading level by one half of a year by Thanksgiving break.

What is setting a goal?

400

What I need to learn and what you need to learn so that we both improve may be different from each other.

What is being an individual?

500

This test asks me different questions than it asks my neighbor based on what how I answered the last question.

What is an adaptive test?

Key Ideas

100

A story is affected by the place and time it takes place.

What is setting?

200

Authors have opinions that they express through their article or story that they want us to learn through reading their work.

What is author's point of view?

300

If I say it or write it, I have to prove it.

What is citing evidence?

400

The story did not tell me this exactly, but I know what it is trying to tell me.

What is inferencing?

500

This is the big message that the author wants the reader to understand.

What is theme?

Craft and Structure

100

The words in this chapter makes me feel happy or sad or angry or scared...

What is tone?

200

Depending on what character is telling the story, the story can be viewed in a number of ways.

What is point of view?

300

If I look at what is the same and what is different between setting, characters, problems, I am doing this.

What is compare and contrast?