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  • Lexile and Running Records of Houghton Mifflin Stories for Fifth Grade
     
  • Lexile and Running Records of Houghton Mifflin Stories for Sixth Grade
     
  • Organize Houghton Mifflin with a Reading Theme Box
     
  • Reading Responses for Novels (from Karen O-Connor)
     
  • The "Teacher Idea Sharing" link on the Santa Maria Bonita School District Reading Website has some excellent resources for Houghton Mifflin. You'll find focus walls and word pattern boards as well as grade level resources.
     

• Professional Readings

  • Teaching Readers Who Struggle:A Pragmatic Middle School Framework--This article is lengthy, but an excellent resource for grade 5 teachers.
     

  • The Six Ts of Effective Elementary Literacy Instruction by Richard Allington -- This article describes the six components essential to reading achievement:  Texts, Time, Teach, Talk, Tasks and Test.
     

  • Which Text do I use for What Purpose? This article describes the different types of texts we use and gives a brief guideline of how to use a variety of texts for each grade level.
     

  • Reading Comprehension Instruction In Grades 4-8 -- Chapter 1 Strategic Instruction: 
    This excellent document focuses on strategy-based instruction for text structure and drawing inferences along with several pages on students with learning differences and ELL,  The chapter finishes with tips for teachers on "Instruction in Strategic Reading."
     
  • Reading Comprehension Instruction in Grades 4-8 --Full Text Version (19 pages)  The full text of this report discusses vocabulary instruction, and metacognition.  It also highlights strategies for students with learning disabilities and E.L.L. and gives many tips for teachers.