Program Goals

The overall CORI Classroom goals include:

• Reading comprehension; writing; science; motivation
• Extended, engaged reading in the classroom for 60 minutes daily

General Goal

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CORI aims to support:

Reading Comprehension

• Activating background knowledge, questioning, summarizing, searching, organizing graphically, and interpreting stories.

Science Inquiry

• Observation, using knowledge, questioning, designing investigations, collecting data, drawing conclusions, explaining results conceptually.
• Study of science theme:
  Survival concepts (ecology): Feeding, locomotion, defense, predation, respiration, reproduction, competition, communication, adjustment to habitat.

Motivation

• Knowledge goals for reading, "hands on" experiences, interesting books, choices about the learning, collaboration with classmates.

Reading and Science Integration

• Relating observations in "hands-on" science activities to contents and characters in literary and information books.
• Connecting students' interests in the environment to their motivations for book reading.

Student Writing

• Writing entries in portfolios demonstrating the following: Information text reading, literary text reading, science concepts, science processes, motivation for reading.