The Reading and Language Arts Formula: PQRK3SEC6 Formula

By Michael Renna

This book offers a formula project assignment designed to effectively improve student performance in the subject of Reading and Language Arts. You will be happy with the results! It can be used as a center activity in class, a project assignment, or just simply something that parents can monitor at home in order to strengthen their child's reading and language arts skills. As a project assignment, it takes roughly three weeks to complete. This assignment can be applied to almost any type of reading genre. It works best with story books. You may creatively add your own task and assignment ideas to the project to enhance its value. Grading and evaluating the project assignment can be performed at your own discretion. When your child or student fully completes the PQRK3SEC6 formula project, they will have exercised the following academic skills: surveying, inquiring, identifying, chronological sequencing, applying background knowledge, identifying the text structure, summarizing, essay writing (opinion/informative), comparing and contrasting, creative reasoning, critical reasoning, identifying the major components of a story, reflective writing, transitional writing, spelling, grammar, punctuation, making inferences, drawing conclusions, making predictions, extracting details/citing the text, providing sound evidence, explaining more fully in your own words, elaborating, and creating personalized illustrative artwork. As a bonus, this book offers several QR coded instructional videos where I personally teach the formal writing process. I include high scoring written student sample essays, and share several ELA learning strategies that yield great results. In final, I made sure to write a Spanish language version of this book, which is intended to be applied to that particular language. I conveniently combined both the English and Spanish versions all into one volume. This formula project is a great way that parents can take part in their child's academic improvement in school and connect with their child's teacher.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
• Release date: Apr 26, 2022
• ISBN: 9781637106624

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The Reading and Language Arts Formula: PQRK3SEC6 Formula

Michael Renna

Copyright © 2021 Michael Renna

All rights reserved

First Edition

Fulton Books, Inc.

Meadville, PA

Published by Fulton Books 2021

ISBN 978-1-63710-661-7 (paperback)

ISBN 979-8-88505-132-3 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-63710-662-4 (digital)

Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

How to Fully Complete the PQRK3SEC6 Project

Grading the PQRK3SEC6 Project

Enhancing the Project

Practicing Cause and Effect, Making Inferences, and Drawing Conclusions

Interdisciplinary Application of the PQRK3SEC6 Project

Working with a Resource Teacher/Private Tutor

Inconsistencies with Test Scores and Classroom Performance

Collaboration (Small Group Centers)

A Mnemonic Trick That Will Build Fluency in Writing the Opinion Essay

Building on the Depth of Response in Class

Modeling a PQRK3SEC6 Project

A sample PQRK3SEC6 Project

Writing Outside the PQRK3SEC6 Project

Instructional Video Library

An Outline of the PQRK3SEC6 Project

Pensamientos Iniciales

Sinopsis

Cómo Completar el Proyecto de la Fórmula PQRK3SEC6

Calificación del Proyecto de la Fórmula PQRK3SEC6

Mejorar el Proyecto de la Formula PQRK3SEC6

Practicar Causa y Efecto, Hacer Inferencias y Sacar Conclusiones

Proyecto de Aplicación Interdisciplinaria de la Fórmula

Trabajar con los recursos del profesor

Aprendizaje cooperativo (trabajo en grupo)

Un truco nemotécnico que aumentará la fluidez. (Ensayos)

Construyendo la profundidad de la respuesta y la fluidez en la clase

Modelar una copia finalizada de un proyecto de asignación de PQRK3SEC6 para los estudiantes

Una Muestra Del Proyecto PQRK3SEC6

Planificar y escribir ensayos informativos y de opinión. (Formal)

Un esbozo de la PQRK3SEC6

Conclusión

About the Author

Book Reviews

The Reading and Language Arts Formula, PQRK3SEC6, by Michael Renna is an important book that delves into the methodology for teaching language arts to children beginning in elementary school.

Mr. Renna has extensive knowledge in the classroom and uses his experiences to provide useful information for teaching reading and writing. He details the steps for successful teaching strategies that really work through an easy-to-follow formula. Teachers and parents can help children to become successful readers and writers by following this formula.

Michael Renna describes proven strategies and gives examples from literature. Reading and expository writing are shown to be related. A template is provided that guides children to becoming better writers.

Learning how to grade student work and show growth is important but challenging. In his book, he gives examples showing how to assess student work. This detailed assessment information helps the students improve their spelling, grammar, and writing skills.

This book is an excellent and thorough guide for anyone teaching reading and writing to learners of all ages.

The strategies described in his work are useful, relevant, and informative. Following this easy formula will lead to success for parents, teachers, and most of all, the students.

––Louise Brown, Elementary School Principal

As a principal, I encounter teachers and parents who ask the question, How can I help my student/child to be more proficient readers and writers? This is a book I will be able to place in their hand.

The Reading and Language Arts Formula PQRK3SEC6 by Michael Renna is a detailed academic road map designed to guide teachers/parents in effective teaching strategies using his PQRK3SEC6 method. This step-by-step project assessment lasts about three weeks and is packed with a plethora of quality teaching strategies and can be used with multiple genres. It is full of guided instruction and powerful examples, giving structure to each step teachers/parents will take to develop skilled readers and writers.

This step-by-step manual is perfect for new teachers, veteran teachers, and parents that desire to deepen their understanding of Reading/Language Arts strategies to help children grow. This is a must for every teacher/parent's bookshelf.

––Christina Howell, Elementary School Principal

The Reading and Language Arts Formula: PQRK3SEC6 is a perfect addition to any teacher's library of resource books. Michael Renna has taken the guesswork out of how to effectively teach reading and writing strategies to your students. His easy-to-follow step-by-step plan could easily be applied to all disciplines, not just Language Arts. An excellent resource for parents who are homeschooling their children as well!

—Lisa Medeiros, Seventh-Grade Language Arts Teacher

My two children had the fortune of being taught by Michael Renna when they were in elementary school, and his commitment to the educational growth of my boys and their peers has always been commendable. He wrote this formula with the intent of bringing together parents and their children to experience the benefits of devoting time into academic performance from the early stages of the elementary years. The Reading and Language Arts Formula provides a helpful guideline to achieve success in the classroom by asking for a hands-on approach at evaluating a given assignment and undergoing a step-by-step process to fulfill the required schoolwork. If this formula is applied with a genuinely positive and hopeful mindset, an exceptional result that's mutually beneficial to the student and their parent can be achieved.

––Jeannie Howard, Parent

The Reading and Language Arts Formula is a quick read that can produce long-term benefits for the grade school students who apply this practical and original method of academic improvement. This customizable formula is a collaborative effort between parent and child to further develop writing and presentation skills in addition to encouraging their overall investment and enthusiasm with their education. Michael Renna's structured self-help guide is the fulfillment of his desire for distributive knowledge that carries on into a child's adult life.

––Danny Mora Howard, Former Student

Outstanding strategy! Students can achieve academic success with steps to understand complex text. Writing about reading supports literacy skills. Mr. Renna's formula provides all students with a memorable strategy to become excellent writers and thinkers!

––Mrs. Amy Combs, Sixth-Grade Reading Teacher

I was introduced to the formula in the fourth grade, and I'm currently a student. The formula helped me become a better writer by helping me be more descriptive, define words, and sequencing a story. Coming from a student in Mr. Renna's class, I recommend you read Mr. Renna's book because it helps novelists, readers, and students improve their writing.

––Candace Maldonado, Student

The Reading and Language Arts Formula PQRK3SEC6 was introduced to my daughter in the fourth grade by Mr. Michael Renna. The formula gave my daughter confidence and helped improve her writing skills. The sequencing, being descriptive, and defining words in her writing taught her how to soar using the step-by-step instructions as her guide. The book is so user-friendly that anyone could apply the steps to any classroom setting for different courses. The Reading and Language Arts Formula PQRK3SEC6 is a priceless book that should be in every kids and adult library at home.

––Kimberly Conley, Parent

I recommend this book for all students. It personally helped me know how to handle any writing prompt and not have my mind go blank on what to say.

––Ellen Tong, Fifth-Grade Student

The value of the PQRK3SEC6 formula should not be underestimated. I've seen the faces of my fifth-grade students light up when they were given the opportunity to work within this project during the school day. This prescription formula works!

Within this structured writing project, students are still impressively creative and enjoy any opportunity to share their writing with others. The growth workout and student successes begin immediately after implementation.

By the end of the school year, students, parents, friends, and administrators all have writing achievements to discuss and celebrate. The wonderful results my students experienced came from implementing the PQ without the manual many years ago. At that time, Michael would give us the application during quick lunch breaks, hallway gatherings, and whenever we as the fifth-grade team could get a moment to meet. Public school teachers certainly understand. There is never enough time in the school day. But now, the PQRK3SEC6 formula is available in a manual that is well thought out and easy to follow with examples for quick implementation. I believe parents and teachers who are not familiar with this formula will find this manual to be an effective teaching tool. The PQ is not limited to the language arts classroom. It can be modified for other disciplines as well. Perfect!

––Vashty BasYahweh, Educator

We know Michael Renna as an outstanding teacher as our grandson was in his class, and during this time, we saw tremendous improvement in his schoolwork. We are happy he is sharing his knowledge and classroom experience with parents (and grandparents) in his book, The Reading and Language Arts Formula. The concepts he describes and examples he uses are easy to understand and apply.

Noteworthy is to have this methodology in both Spanish and English as multilingual families are often in need of language help in their native tongue. This book fulfills that need for both parents and students as well as their teachers.

––Marta and John Daly, Grandparents

The PQ is a comprehensive reading project that requires students to connect with a novel at an analysis level. They go through a variety of steps to demonstrate understanding of the book, while also developing capacity as readers and writers. It also allows for creativity and individual expression of their ideas and opinions. The PQ project is a deep dive into understanding not just one book, but the art and craft of literature as well.

–– Debbie Jackson, Reading Coach

Opening Thoughts

Generally, it seems to me that often enough, the most successful students are the ones who have parents actively helping them with their academics at home. Then why don't all parents work with their children on their academics at home? In my experience, I found that it is not because they don't want to, but it is often the case where they don't know how to.

This book offers a way that parents, teachers, and students can unite. The book offers an academic ongoing formula project that will get parents, teachers, and students working together. The result will be a more successful student when it comes to reading and writing in school. After all, working together can mean winning together.

Synopsis

This book offers a formula project assignment designed to effectively improve student performance in the subject of Reading and Language Arts. You will be happy with the results! It can be used as a center activity in class, a project assignment, or just simply something that parents can monitor at home in order to strengthen their child's reading and language arts skills. As a project assignment, it takes roughly three weeks to complete. This assignment can be applied to almost any type of reading genre. It works best with story books. You may creatively add your own task and assignment ideas to the project to enhance its value. Grading and evaluating the project assignment can be performed at your own discretion. When your child or student fully completes the PQRK3SEC6 formula project, they will have exercised the following academic skills: surveying, inquiring, identifying, chronological sequencing, applying background knowledge, identifying the text structure, summarizing, essay writing (opinion/informative), comparing and contrasting, creative reasoning, critical reasoning, identifying the major components of a story, reflective writing, transitional writing, spelling, grammar, punctuation, making inferences, drawing conclusions, making predictions, extracting details/citing the text, providing sound evidence, explaining more fully in your own words, elaborating, and creating personalized illustrative artwork. As a bonus, this book offers several QR coded instructional videos where I personally teach the formal writing process. I include high scoring written student sample essays, and share several ELA learning strategies that yield great results. In final, I made sure to write a Spanish language version of