Reading
This year will read a variety of books including chapter books, magazines, newspapers, and many more! Students will read independently, with a partner, in a small group, or with the teacher.
Unit 1:
Interpreting Characters: reading intensely, finding the right books, retelling and synthesizing, envisioning, using story arcs to notice details about characters, developing theories, debating ideas about text.
Unit 2:
Reading the Weather, Reading the World: learning from nonfiction, understanding text structures, monitoring for sense, tackling tricky vocabulary, note-taking, summarizing, researching, synthesizing information, growing research-based ideas.
Unit 3:
Reading History: The American Revolution: previewing texts, organizing information and notes, researching, studying text structures, note-taking on what’s important, synthesizing across texts, analyzing sources, recognizing different perspectives, finding evidence to support a claim.
Unit 4:
Historical Fiction: reading analytically, monitoring for sense, having thoughtful group conversations, determining themes, paying attention to tone and mood.
Other Units: Biographies, Author Study, Poetry, and State Research
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