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Reading |
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Readers Build Good Habits |
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Readers’ Workshop,
procedures, noise level, transitions, focus, building a community of readers,
partnerships, sharing, just right books |
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Trimester |
Readers Use Strategies to Figure Out Words (Decode) |
I |
Decoding strategies,
reading tools, beginning fluency, teacher-directed reading, revisit
partnerships, activating background knowledge, predictions, retelling,
comprehension strategies |
(Fall) |
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Readers Retell and use Comprehension Strategies to Understand
Text |
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Review story elements,
story mapping, story language, holding the story in your head, synthesizing,
visualizing, predictions, making inferences |
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Readers Read in a Series |
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Narratives,
Descriptive Language, Understanding Characters and what they say, do, think,
and feel, inferring what a character is like, character attributes,
quotes. Characters grow and change; Finding evidence in a text to
support a claim. Connections – text to text, text to world,
text to self. |
Trimester |
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II |
Continue Reading in a Series |
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Looking at fiction –
realistic, fantasy, fairy tales, historical; Reviewing story elements |
(Winter) |
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Readers Read Informational Text to Learn about the World Around
Us |
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What makes a book
non-fiction? Genres of Informational Text, Informational Text features and
structures; (Also see Math and Science) |
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Readers
Dive Deeper into Fiction |
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Explore Point of View, Character
Analysis, Detail, Author’s Craft |
Trimester |
Readers
Use Readers’ Theater to Improve Fluency |
III |
Fluency, Phrasing, Expression,
Speed, Intonation, Fluent reading sounds like talking, pacing, pausing,
volume, paying attention to punctuation, preparing for performance,
rereading, rehearsing, performing! |
(Spring) |
Readers
Explore Poetry |
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Elements of poetry,
how to read a poem, poem titles, text features, concept of line breaks,
different genres of poetry, performing poetry, sensory language, descriptive
details, visualizing, adjectives, place poetry, inference with poems,
choosing effective words |
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