Unit 1 - Growth Spurts:

choosing how to read, taking sneak peeks, increasing stamina/setting goals, smoothing out/scooping-up snap words, using strategies to decode tricky words and determine meaning of unfamiliar words, thinking & jotting ideas, noticing authors' intentions, identifying craft moves (to then use in our own writing!), learning story lessons and author's message

Unit 2 - Becoming Experts:

how to read nonfiction, using text features to gather information, previewing, noticing details, asking questions, understanding/making meaning of keywords, decoding/ learning vocabulary, reading smoothly like experts, using lingo to teach others, comparing and learning from multiple books on a topic, retelling a topic

Unit 3 - Bigger Books, Amping Up Reading Power:

rereading with voices, scooping words fluently, applying dialogue tags, using understanding/ comprehension to read even more fluently, noticing literary language: comparisons, playing with words, holding onto understanding in longer books, setting/budgeting and reaching buddy/club reading goals

Unit 4 - Series Book Clubs:

finding and using text evidence to support discussion ideas/opinions around characters, problems, similarities, actions, relationships, character knowledge to predict, craft moves to “paint a picture with their words”, precise words, literary language, series patterns, reading the punctuation to bring stories to life with expression, discussing and wondering why did the author start/end the story that way… and more!

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