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Middle & High School - Reading Comprehension
Curriculum Outline

Topic 1. Reading Fiction: Fables and Moral Stories

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1Read and Summarize a Book
   
                                  
2Introduction to Reading Comprehension
   
                                  
3Genres: Myths and Fables
   
                                  
4Reading Fiction - Strategies
   
                                  
5The Emperor's New Clothes
   
                                  
6The Ruby Prince
   
                                  
7The Game of Chess
   
                                  
8The Tin Soldier
   
                                  
9Six Able Men
   
                                  
10Bluebeard
   
                                  
11The Empress Jowka
   
                                  
12Beauty and the Beast
   
                                  
13The Seven Crows
   
                                  
14The Parrot Shah
   
                                  
15The Wise Little Girl
   
                                  
16Sasha, Mansor and the Storks
   
                                  
17The Daisy
   
                                  
18The Ransom of Red Chief
   
                                  
19The Adventures of Tom Thumb
   
                                  
20The Little Pear Girl
   
                                  
21The Pied Piper of Hamelin
   
                                  
22The Snow Queen
   
                                  
23The Ugly Duckling
   
                                  
24A Shrewed Farmer's Story
   
                                  
25The Little Gold Fish
   
                                  
26The Golden Goose
   
                                  
27The Magic Tinderbox
   
                                  
28The Peasant, The Snake, and The Fox
   
                                  
29The Weeping Princess
   
                                  
30Til Ulenspighel
   
                                  
31Goldilocks and the Three Bears
   
                                  
32The Story of Thumbelina
   
                                  
33Little Red Riding Hood
   
                                  
34The Wolf and the Seven Kids
   
                                  
35The Sleeping Princess
   
                                  
36Cinderella
   
                                  
37Analyzing Literature: Moon-Face by Jack London
   
                                  
38Analyzing Literature: War by Jack London
   
                                  
39The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
   
                                  

Topic 2. Reading Poetry

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1Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
   
                                  
2A Misspelled Tail by Elizabeth T. Corbett
   
                                  
3October's Bright Blue Weather by Helen Hunt Jackson
   
                                  
4Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
   
                                  
5The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
   
                                  
6My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson
   
                                  
7The Duel by Eugene Field
   
                                  
8The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
   
                                  
9Sea-Fever by John Masefield
   
                                  
10The Walrus and The Carpenter by Lewis Carroll
   
                                  
11IF by Rudyard Kipling
   
                                  
12Daffodils by William Wordsworth
   
                                  

Topic 3. Reading Nonfiction

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1Informational Reading Strategies
   
                                  
2Waterfalls
   
                                  
3Transformers
   
                                  
4Cirrus Cloud
   
                                  
5Review Test - Reading Comprehension Level 6
   
                                  
6Plasma Lamps
   
                                  
7Mark Alan Webber - An Australian Formula One Driver
   
                                  
8Soda Water or Sparkling Water
   
                                  
9Alfred McCoy Tyner - A Jazz Pianist
   
                                  
10Review Test - Reading Comprehension Level 7
   
                                  
11The Matterhorn - A Mountain in the Alps
   
                                  
12Rembrandt van Rijn
   
                                  
13Marie Curie – Biography
   
                                  
14Rosa Parks Biography
   
                                  
15Review Test - Reading Comprehension Level 8
   
                                  
16Read and Summarize a Book