Prompt your class to examine their own negative cycles with a short reading passage. After they finish reading, they answer two questions about concepts that they can find in the text.

Concepts

reading fluency, reading comprehension, informational texts, nonfiction texts

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Have kids write about the cycles they find themselves falling into, and how they can break the cycles
• Come up with additional questions to ask about the passage, or have partners decide what else they could question from the reading
• Use as part of an assessment for reading level

Classroom Considerations

• Only provides two recall-level questions 

Pros

• Straightforward for any level of reader
• A good topic for discussion
• Provides several different informational reading prompts (attached)

Cons

• None

Common Core

RI.6.2