Course Description
Lincoln Middle School Reading Lab
What is THE READING LAB?
The Reading Lab at Lincoln Middle School provides students with an opportunity to bridge the gap in reading between word identification and deriving meaning from the written word. Students will make measurable gains in their reading through individualized goal setting and instruction, thus helping them grow academically and easing their transition to high school.
What is the Goal of the reading Lab?
The goal of the Lincoln Middle School Reading Lab is to help students improve their reading abilities and master more challenging reading materials. The lab provides strategic reading instruction through exposure to various types of reading material with the emphasis on informational text. Reading materials will coincide with the Humanities Curriculum. Students learn to construct meaning through reading and will be expected to take responsibility for their work ethic as well as the quality of their work. This enables students to experience success across the curriculum.
Components of the reading Lab
Strategic reading instruction
1. Predicting
2. Summarizing
3. Questioning
4. Inferring
5. Imagery
6. Connecting
7. Vocabulary
8. Cause/Effect
9. Main Idea
10.Supporting Details
11.Sequencing
12.Fact/Opinion
How does the Readers’ Lab accomplish these goals?
What is THE READING LAB?
The Reading Lab at Lincoln Middle School provides students with an opportunity to bridge the gap in reading between word identification and deriving meaning from the written word. Students will make measurable gains in their reading through individualized goal setting and instruction, thus helping them grow academically and easing their transition to high school.
What is the Goal of the reading Lab?
The goal of the Lincoln Middle School Reading Lab is to help students improve their reading abilities and master more challenging reading materials. The lab provides strategic reading instruction through exposure to various types of reading material with the emphasis on informational text. Reading materials will coincide with the Humanities Curriculum. Students learn to construct meaning through reading and will be expected to take responsibility for their work ethic as well as the quality of their work. This enables students to experience success across the curriculum.
Components of the reading Lab
Strategic reading instruction
1. Predicting
2. Summarizing
3. Questioning
4. Inferring
5. Imagery
6. Connecting
7. Vocabulary
8. Cause/Effect
9. Main Idea
10.Supporting Details
11.Sequencing
12.Fact/Opinion
How does the Readers’ Lab accomplish these goals?
- Students receive modeled instruction while reading material that is appropriate for their independent and instructional reading levels
- Students move to learning centers where they continue to practice and develop reading strategies independently and in a small group
- Students maintain journals/notebooks to record their progress.
- Mutli-level, student-centered learning environment
- Both teachers work with all levels of students
- Small group student-led discussions on articles read
- Students rotate through centers based on reading levels
- Students conference weekly with a teacher on their progress of their individual goals
- Diagnostic testing weekly, benchmarking monthly
- Students may get to choose their assignments (ways of showing their knowledge or understanding)