LibGuides: Alouette Library Learning Commons: RISE UP! Year 2

Reading Comprehension

ReadWorks.org

Welcome to ReadWorks! A wonderful library to learn new words, improve your reading stamina and practice your reading comprehension!

Class Codes

Mrs. Waterman 56S3R7

Mrs. Wightman PEHJBQ

Mrs. Wong 5REBQD

Mrs. Aareskjold JUMW6E
Password is 1234

Newsela.com
Access to 20+ genres of content to support core instruction, like primary sources, reference texts, essays, fiction, issue overviews, and more–all at 5 reading levels.

Use 6ZBECN as your class code.
Smithsonian TT Junior
A website with leveled current event articles similar to Newsela. You can create a class and assign articles to your class. There is a synthesizing question at the end of each article.

Alexander Mackenzie's Route

David Thompson's Route

RISE UP! Start Up Year 1

RISE UP! Intro Video

After watching this short video, you will know the three goals we have for you over the next 6 weeks.

The purpose of this Reading Intervention is to set students up to have a deeper understanding of what they are reading by using word solving strategies such as:

Using the visual information in words as a starting point for problem solving difficult words and relying on meaning and structure as a secondary strategy to cross check.

The purpose of this Reading Intervention is to set students up to have a deeper understanding of what they are reading by using comprehension strategies such as:

Click and Clunk (Read, Stop, Think). Is it a Click? or a Clunk?

Read, Cover, Remember, Retell

Reading with a sense of "WOW". Read with a sense of curiosity and interest!

Check Yourself (Read, Notice Confusion, Reread, Revise Your Thinking)

Encounter by Jane Yolen 9:20

Christopher Columbus and the Taino People 9:08

Watch the video above.

Do you think the "discovery" of America should be celebrated as Columbus Day or should the Americans rename the holiday as Indigenous Peoples' Day?

Explain your thinking.

RISE Videos

Use this link to watch teachers teach each station. Downloadable resources are also available here.

https://www.scholastic.com/pro/The-Next-Step-Forward-in-Reading-Intervention.html

"After a couple months of intervention, students gain the confidence, proficiency, and skills they need to excel as readers."

Rise/Rise Up Orientation Powerpoint

Keep the Learning Going

Explorers for Kids: Captain James Cook

The History of HMB Endeavour's 1770 Voyage with James Cook Video (7:05)

We find out more about Captain James Cook and his famous voyage aboard the Endeavour, during which he charted New Zealand at the Eastern coast of Australia.

What Happened to Henry Hudson?