Overview of Unit: This unit will support students in developing a rich life of nonfiction reading, along with the skills to do that reading well. The students will learn to read for long stretches of nonfiction text and to read to elarn what the author wants them to learn rather than to pinpoint specific facts. The students will learn to use text strucutres to organize their reconstruction of a text. Finally, the students will learning to read narrative nonfiction by applying what they learned earlier in the unit.

Bend 1:

• Readers will preview, identify various parts, and make predictions to prepare them to read nonfiction texts.

• Readers will stop throughout the text to summarize the important information in order to help them remember what was read.

• Readers will identify main idea of nonfiction texts by organizing information as they read.

• Readers will use the knowledge gained to become an expert on a nonfiction topic and use their knowledge to teach others about this topic.

• Readers will identify the main idea and understand that as we better comprehend the text it may change.

• Readers will set goals, track progress, and reflect when reading nonfiction texts.

Bend 2:

• Readers will learn that they read nonfiction to learn, identify importance, author’s purpose, and collect interesting information.

• While reading, readers will prepare to discuss what they read

• Readers will identify their point of view on a nonfiction topic, the point of view, and compare their point of view to the author’s.

• Readers will understand the difference between expository and narrative nonfiction.

Bend 3:

• Readers will use text structure to help them understand what they read.

• Readers will summarize narrative nonfiction by identifying important details.

• Readers will use self-monitoring strategies to maintain balance between fluent reading and stopping to understand new words.

• Readers will read biographies for more than one purpose.

• Readers will identify underlying ideas in true stories.

• Readers will use knowledge on fictional characters to compare to people in narrative nonfiction texts.

• Readers will be able to identify hybrid nonfiction texts and the author’s clues that show narrative or expository.

• Readers will self-assess and understand the importance of tracking one’s progress.

• Readers will create a physical representation of what they have learned about nonfiction reading.