Reading+Marathon

Reading Marathon

Relay (partner) Passages are once a week and Marathon (individual) Passages are once a week. The document below has an outline about how the Reading Marathon works. [|Reading Marathon schedule 2010.docx] The students will each have their own Marathon folder, each team will have a Relay folder. Each folder will have a tracking progress folder. [|Reading Relay folder.doc] [|Tracking My TAKS Reading Progress.docx] [|Reading Marathon Folder.doc] Each week, we will focus on a TAKS Objectives through explicit teach of strategies, games, guided practice and passages. [|RM10 Week 1.doc] [|RM10 Week 2.doc] [|RM10 Week 3.doc] [|RM10 Week 4.doc] [|RM10 Week 5.doc]
 * Reading Marathon**

Overview of the next five weeks: Monday: Prepare for reading benchmark. Introduce Reading Marathon Tuesday: READING BENCHMARK  Wednesday: First Day of Reading Marathon-Graphic Sources Thursday: Informational Text
 * Reading Marathon** - Week 1

**Reading Marathon**-Week 2 Monday: Vocabulary-Prefix/Suffix Tuesday: Vocabulary-Context Clues/Synonyms and Antonyms Wednesday: Vocabulary-Multimeaning Words

 Monday: Cause and Effect Tuesday: Predicting Outcomes Wednesday: Fact and Opinion Thursday: Drawing Conclusions
 * Reading Marathon**-Week 3

 4/13 Monday: Main Idea Tuesday: Summary Wednesday: Summary/Main Idea Thursday: Author's Purpose /Genre
 * Week 5**
 * Reading Marathon**-Week 4

 4/19 Monday: Sequencing Tuesday: Story Elements Wednesday: Review! Thursday: Build Endurance Day! Students do two passages independently Friday: Relax for the TAKS/ Blow the Top Off the TAKS Reading???
 * Week 6**
 * Reading Marathon**__-Week 5