Reading Skills Roadmap: Year-Long Reading Skills Sequence (Grades 2–8)

Teacher templates · Grades 2–8 · PDF, 27 pages · Free

The Reading Skills Roadmap is a free, year-long sequence for teaching reading skills in grades 2 to 8. It is organized into two parts: the Reading Toolkit (grades 2 and up), with ten core skills like fact and opinion, sequencing, main idea and inference, and Comprehension Level-Up (grades 4 and up), with ten deeper skills like citing text evidence, theme, text structures and comparing texts.

Every skill gets its own planning page with a suggested time frame, a kid-friendly meaning, an I can statement, key vocabulary, a three-step mini-lesson, discussion question stems and a quick check. Clickable links on each page open LootDrop resources that teach the skill, from anchor charts to nonfiction articles.

Use it as a starting point for your reading year, a planning guide for your grade-level team, or a quick reference when you need a mini-lesson idea fast. A skills tracker at the end helps you note when each skill was taught and revisited.

What's included

• How to use the roadmap
• Roadmap at a glance for both parts
• 20 skill planning pages
• Kid-friendly meanings and I can statements
• Mini-lessons, question stems and quick checks
• Clickable links to matching LootDrop resources
• Skills tracker

How teachers use it

• Planning the reading year
• Grade-level team planning
• Mini-lesson ideas
• Intervention and small groups

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