In this unit, students will read literary texts about children who face challenges accessing school and education, and explore how they overcome those obstacles. As a class, we will read several narrative stories to analyze the difficulties the main characters encounter and the ways they respond to those challenges. Students will learn to identify the central message or lesson of each story and examine how it is conveyed through specific details in the text.

This module also introduces independent research reading. Students will practice responding to reading prompts using the RACE writing structure to support their comprehension and written expression.

In the second half of the module, we will shift our focus to reading and writing informative texts. Students will apply their learning to plan, write, revise, and edit an informative paragraph describing how people in a particular country have addressed the challenge of accessing books.

To conclude the module, students will reflect on their own experiences by writing a reading contract. This four-paragraph essay will describe two reading challenges they face and outline strategies they plan to use to overcome them!