Overview of Unit: Readers focus on deeply knowing characters and reading a tremendous volume across a series. This unit is designed as a book club so readers can support each other in reading more complex texts and hold each other accountable for using textual evidence to support their ideas.

Bend 1:

• Readers will begin reading series books in book clubs, beginning ideally with the first book in the series.

• Readers will begin to have ideas about the main character, using more precise vocabulary to describe characters.

• Readers will explain how the character’s actions contribute to the sequence of events.

Bend 2:

• Readers begin to read through the next couple of books in their series, they’ll begin to grow more sophisticated theories about the characters.

• Readers begin to compare and contrast those characters.

• Readers will be asked to describe how one book builds on another.

Bend 3:

• Readers will be move into a new series and engage in interpretation as they compare and contrast characters from across a different series

• Readers will compare lessons are taught across a variety of series.

• Readers will be encouraged to extend these ideas to the world around them, considering their own experiences and knowledge their knowledge of the world.