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What is Shared Reading
Standards we learn in Shared Reading
Standards we learn in Shared Reading
Standards
Standards
RL.1.1 - Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.1.2 - Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
RL.1.3 - Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
RL.1.4 - Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
RL.1.5 - Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.
RL.1.6 - Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text
RL.1.7 - Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
RL.1.9 - Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories.
RI.1.1 - With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RI.1.2 - Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
RI.1.5 - Know and use various text features (e.g., headings, tables of contents, glossaries, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text.
RI.1.6 - Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text.
RI.1.7 - Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.
RI.1.8 - Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
RI.1.9 - Identify the basic similarities in and differences between two texts on same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
How Can I Practice Shared Reading
Asking and answering questions
Asking and answering questions
Identify Characters, settings and major events
Identify Characters, settings and major events
Retelling a Story
Retelling a Story
Writing complete sentences
Classroom Resources for Shared Reading
Main Idea, Gist, Details
Main Idea, Gist, Details
Unit 2 Fishtank Overview
Unit 2 Fishtank Overview
Unit 4 Fishtank Overview
Unit 4 Fishtank Overview
The goal of this unit is to help students understand that families come in all different shapes and sizes, and that no matter what a family looks like, all families love and care for one another. The world we live in is increasingly diverse, especially within family structures. As students are building their own identities, it is important for them to see mirrors of their own lives so that they can develop healthy identities, while also seeing windows into other lives so that they can embrace differences. Over the course of the unit, students will read stories that highlight a wide range of families and experiences, some of which may not be present in your school community. Ensuring that students see a wide range of families and experiences is crucial for helping students make sense of the world around them.
Additionally, students will be pushed to “read” the illustrations, noticing how illustrations in a text provide clues about events, settings, and characters. When discussing the text, students transition from focusing on clarifying and sharing their thoughts during a discussion to engaging with the thinking of others. Students learn how to build on others’ talk in conversations by responding to the comments of others and asking questions to clear up confusion about the topics or texts under discussion.
Students will continue to work on building their writing fluency by writing daily in response to the Target Task question. Over the course of the unit, students will learn different strategies for ensuring that they are using complete sentences and that they are varying the types of sentences that they are writing to convey different ideas and emotions. Students have a few opportunities to use what they learned in previous units about opinion writing, but the main genre-based focus of this unit is on narrative writing. Building on work done in previous units, students continue to write focused narratives with strong beginnings, middles, and ends that include specific details about what happened at each part of the narrative.
Books We Are Reading For This Unit
Books We Are Reading For This Unit
Youtube resources are also available (Make sure to include full book to listen the entire book.)
Unit 5 Fishtank Overview
Unit 5 Fishtank Overview
In this biography-based unit, students read and learn about a diverse assortment of artists and musicians. By reading a wide variety of biographies, students will be challenged to think about where people get their inspiration, and how a person’s decisions and actions can change his or her life, especially when facing instances of prejudice and discrimination. Students will also be challenged to think about how a person can be influential and how reading about other people’s lives can help them in their own lives. It is our hope that this unit will open students’ eyes to different life paths and passions, particularly those in the arts.
When discussing the text, students transition from focusing on clarifying and sharing their thoughts during a discussion to engaging with the thinking of others. Students learn how to build on others’ talk in conversations by responding to the comments of others. Students also learn how to ask questions to clear up confusion about the topics or texts under discussion. Both focuses allow students to get a deeper understanding of the content and their classmates’ ideas.
Students continue to build their writing fluency by writing daily in response to the Target Task question using a variety of simple and complex sentences to show a nuanced understanding of the content. Students also have chances to practice their narrative, informational, and opinion writing and are given the opportunity to craft their own unique poems, inspired by the artwork from the unit. The unit concludes with students participating in a shared research project on Misty Copeland, building on the research and informational writing skills learned in previous units.
Books We Are Reading For This Unit
Books We Are Reading For This Unit
Youtube resources are also available (Make sure to include full book to listen the entire book.)
Unit 6 Fishtank Overview
Unit 6 Fishtank Overview
In this unit, students explore the power of books and reading. In the first part of the unit, students experience the joy that books and reading bring to people's lives, and learn about some of the different ways people access books, especially in places where books are hard to get. In the second part of the unit, students learn about a range of barriers people have faced when trying to learn how to read, both in the United States and around the world, and build an understanding of the steps people have taken individually and as part of a community to overcome those barriers. Students will discover that not all people have had equal access to education and that in many places, past and present, receiving a high-quality education has not been an easy feat. It is our hope that this unit will help open students' eyes to injustices connected with educational access and will inspire students to take action to help members of their community get access to books or education.
Students use everything they have learned from previous units to deeply analyze a text. When describing a character, students review how to notice a character’s actions, motivations, traits, feelings, and relationships in order to develop a nuanced understanding of the character and determine the central message of the story. When discussing the text, students work on using all of the strategies they learned in previous units to participate in an effective partner, small-group, or whole-group discourse. When building on others’ talk in conversations, students may begin to critique and analyze the reasoning of others as a way of continuing the conversation through multiple exchanges, however, the focus is still on building on and responding to others’ comments.
Students continue to practice writing fluently in response to the Target Task question, using a variety of simple and complex sentences to show more nuanced thinking and understanding of the text. Over the course of the unit, students have multiple opportunities to refine their opinion writing skills by writing opinion pieces that include a strong opinion, two to three reasons, and a sense of closure.
Books We Are Reading For This Unit
Books We Are Reading For This Unit
Youtube resources are also available (Make sure to include full book to listen the entire book.)
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