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Unit 1: Building a Reading
Life
August-September
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1.Building a Powerful Reading
Life
2. Reading As If Books Are Gold
3. Finding Within-Reach Books, and Reading Tons of Them
4. Setting Goals and Tracking Progress
5. Setting Up Systems to Find and Share Books
6. Reading in the Company of Partners
7. Readers Check for Comprehension
8. Follow Textual Cues as You Read
9. Prediction
10. Making Higher-Level Predictions
11. Retelling Stories
12. Readers Decide How to Lift the Level of Their Reading
13. Tackling Complex Texts Takes Grit
14. Figuring Out Hard Words
15. Using Textual Clues to Figure Out the Meaning of Unfamiliar Words
16. Making Sense of Figurative Language
17. Talking Back to the Text
18. Raising the Level of Questions to Unearth Deeper Meaning
3. Finding Within-Reach Books, and Reading Tons of Them
4. Setting Goals and Tracking Progress
5. Setting Up Systems to Find and Share Books
6. Reading in the Company of Partners
7. Readers Check for Comprehension
8. Follow Textual Cues as You Read
9. Prediction
10. Making Higher-Level Predictions
11. Retelling Stories
12. Readers Decide How to Lift the Level of Their Reading
13. Tackling Complex Texts Takes Grit
14. Figuring Out Hard Words
15. Using Textual Clues to Figure Out the Meaning of Unfamiliar Words
16. Making Sense of Figurative Language
17. Talking Back to the Text
18. Raising the Level of Questions to Unearth Deeper Meaning
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Unit 2: Reading to Learn
October-November |
1. Previewing Nonfiction
2. Looking for Structure Within
a Nonfiction Text
3. Grasping Main Ideas in
Nonfiction Texts
4. Becoming Experts and
Teaching Others from Nonfiction
5. Tackling Complexity
6. Getting Better Requires
Clear Goals
7. Reading for Significance
8. Reading Differently Because
of Conversations
9. Distinguishing Your
Own Opinion from the Author
10. Lifting the Level of
Students' Talk
11. Using Text Structure to
Hold On to Meaning in Narrative Nonfiction
12. Summarizing Narrative
Nonfiction
13. Tackling Hard Words that
Complicate Meaning
14. Reading Biographies through
Different Lenses
15. Seeking Underlying
Ideas in True Stories
16. Bringing Your Narrative
Nonfiction Lenses to a Broader Range of Texts
17. Identifying When a
Text is a Hybrid Nonfiction and Adjusting Accordingly
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Unit 3: Character Studies
October-December |
1.Readers Notice How a New Character Talks and Acts
2. From Observations to Ideas
3. Noticing Patterns, Seeing More: Growing Theories About Characters
4. Using Theories About Characters to Predict
5. Stories Are Shaped Like a Mountain: Characters Go Up and Down
6. Readers Expect Characters to Face and React to Trouble
7. Readers Notice the Roles Secondary Characters Play in the Main Character's Journey
8. Noticing the Roles Illustrations Play in the Story
9. Readers Pay Close Attention to the Climax of the Story: Noticing How the Main Character is Tested
10. Readers Notice How a Character Resolves Bid Trouble
11. Readers Learn Lessons Alongside Their Characters
12. Analyzing Author's Craft
13. Comparing Characters
14. Readers Compare the Problems Characters Face-and Their Reactions
15. Readers Compare and Contrast the Lessons Characters Learn
3. Noticing Patterns, Seeing More: Growing Theories About Characters
4. Using Theories About Characters to Predict
5. Stories Are Shaped Like a Mountain: Characters Go Up and Down
6. Readers Expect Characters to Face and React to Trouble
7. Readers Notice the Roles Secondary Characters Play in the Main Character's Journey
8. Noticing the Roles Illustrations Play in the Story
9. Readers Pay Close Attention to the Climax of the Story: Noticing How the Main Character is Tested
10. Readers Notice How a Character Resolves Bid Trouble
11. Readers Learn Lessons Alongside Their Characters
12. Analyzing Author's Craft
13. Comparing Characters
14. Readers Compare the Problems Characters Face-and Their Reactions
15. Readers Compare and Contrast the Lessons Characters Learn
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Unit 4: Research Clubs
February-April |
1. Revving Up for a Research
Project: Readers Orient Themselves to a Text Set
2. Cross-Text Synthesis
3. Using the Lingo of Experts
4. Zeal Matters: Pursuing
Collaborative Inquiries with Commitment
5. Growing Ideas About
Nonfiction
6. Researchers Ask Questions
7. Planning a Study
8. Reading With Volume and
Fluency
9. Readers Notice Text
Structures and Use Them to Organize Their Learning
10. Compare and Contrast
11. Cause and Effect
12. Reading Closely, Thinking
Deeply
13. Experts Widen their Field
of Focus and See Patterns
14. Asking Questions, Growing
Big Ideas
15. Pursuing Questions
16. Developing Evidence-Based
Theories
17. Adding to Theories by
Researching Big-Picture Concepts
18. Learning to Apply the
Knowledge Readers Develop through Research
19. Finding Solutions to
Real-World Problems
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Unit 5: Mysteries
April-May |
1. Identifying the Main Problem
and Solutions Within a Text
2. Noticing Domain-Specific Vocabulary (detective, fingerprints, motive, evidence, alibi, witness, case, clues, suspect, etc.)
3. Questioning to Solve Mysteries
4. Stepping into a Detective’s Shoes
5. Making Theories About Characters and Revising Them Throughout a Text
6. Collecting Clues from the Beginning of a Text
7. Making Predictions from Patterns in the Text
8. Reading Suspiciously to Find Clues Within the Details of the Text
9. Creating Time-Lines to Figure Out the Plot of a Story
10. Inferencing to Make Sense of Clues
11. Entertaining More Than One Prediction
2. Noticing Domain-Specific Vocabulary (detective, fingerprints, motive, evidence, alibi, witness, case, clues, suspect, etc.)
3. Questioning to Solve Mysteries
4. Stepping into a Detective’s Shoes
5. Making Theories About Characters and Revising Them Throughout a Text
6. Collecting Clues from the Beginning of a Text
7. Making Predictions from Patterns in the Text
8. Reading Suspiciously to Find Clues Within the Details of the Text
9. Creating Time-Lines to Figure Out the Plot of a Story
10. Inferencing to Make Sense of Clues
11. Entertaining More Than One Prediction
