Chapter 1: Create A Joyful Classroom Community
Chapter 2: Converse About Literacy Elements-Fiction
Chapter 3: Converse About Comprehension-Fiction
Chapter 4: Converse About Comprehension-Informational and Narrative Nonfiction
Chapter 5: Build Foundational and Language Skills
Chapter 6: Inspire Writers
Infer Characters’ Feelings
Apply New Understandings
Consider Different Points of Views
Empathize With Characters’ Feelings
Learn from Characters’ Experiences
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Understand Characters’ Life Lessons
Find Clues to Infer Life Lesson
Apply Life Lessons
Identify the Problem
The Smallest Girl in the Smallest Grade
Connect Problem, Solution Impact and Big Ideas
Notice Characters’ Mindsets
Learn to Think Flexibility
Learn to Problem Solve and Preserver
Notice How Characters Change
Ponder when Characters Change
Ponder How Relationships Change
Identify Story Elements
Compare Story Elements
Notice How Authors Change Elements
Study Images to Understand Characters
Notice How Images Change
Think Beyond Images to Big Ideas
Identify Who is Talking
Puddle
Distinguish Between Real and Make Believe
Understand Different Perspectives
Connect With Characters’ Feelings
Connect With Characters’ Mindsets
Learn From Characters Who Overcome Fears
Use Clues to Predict
Julia's House of Lost Creatures
Predict and Revise
A Hungry Lion or a Dwindling Assortment of Animals
Embrace Unexpected Endings
Ask Questions to Understand
Think, Walk, and Wonder
Luna and Me: The True Story of a Girl Who Lived in a Tree to Save a Forest
Question to Determine Author’s Purpose
Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt
Notice Sensory Language
Use Sensory Language That Creates Mental Images
Notice Figurative Language That Creates Mental Images
Embrace Unexpected Endings
Predict, Revise, Retell
Think Beyond Retellings to Big Ideas
Zoom in on the Topic
Notice Similarities and Differences
Notice How Authors Share Facts and Details
A Book of Bridges: Here to There and Me to You
Think Beyond the Main Topic
Animals by the Numbers: A Book of Animal Infographics
Use Text Features to Learn Key Details
Draw Diagrams to Remember Key Details
Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting With the Great Whites of California’s Farallon Islands
Draw or Write During Reading to Remember Key Details:
Research to Answer Lingering Questions
Margaret and the Moon” How Margaret Hamilton Saves the First Lunar Landing
Notice Where Questions Lead
Tree of Wonder: The Many Marvelous Lives of a Rainforest Tree
Question to Determine the Author’s Purpose
Connect Important Events
Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugine Clark Became the Ocean’s Most Fearless Scientist
Connect Character Traits to Text
Connect Character Traits to Life Lessons
Groovy Joe: Ice Cream and Dinosaurs
Listen for Rhymes as You Sing Along
Chime In and Rhymes
Use Rhymes to Predict
Notice and Use Vivid Verbs
Notice and Use Imaginative Adjectives
Notice and Use Expressive Words
Compare and Contrast Words
Notice How Letters Work
Manipulate Letters to Make Words
Join In on Repeated Words
One Day in the Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus Tree
Join In on Repeated Parts
Think Beyond Fluency to Big Ideas
Read, Notice Wonder, and Write
Be the Boss of Your Story
Organize Ideas in Different Ways
Talk to Your Reader
Spot a See-Saw Structure
See the Circular Structure
Notice Question-Answer Structures
Notice and Use Striking Words in Stories
Notice and Use Striking Words in Nonfiction Text
Notice and Use Striking Words in Poetic Text
The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors
Notice Characters With Unique Voices
Find Original Ideas
Create Expressive Characters
If You Ever Want to Bring a Circus to the Library, Don’t!
Create Unforgettable Characters
Sequence Your Story
Add Interesting Details
Choose Descriptive Words
The Most Amazing Creature in the Sea
Share Your Opinion
Give Reasons for Your Opinion
Read Poetry All Year Long
Find Poetry in Your World
Blend Fiction and Nonfiction