Character Studies Reading Unit

3DE Padlet on "Lou"

Epic Collection

NOPQ band- What to do as a 3rd grade reader

Book Clubs:

Bookmark- book clubs

Introduction Video for Families on Character Studies unit

Learning Progressions Chart

Getting to know your character chart

Lesson 1- Readers Notice How a New Character Talks and Acts

Comprehension Book Mark

Character traits 1 

Character Traits 2

Character Traits 3

Character Traits extended

 Character Trait Jot

 Lesson 2-From Observations to Ideas: Readers Think, "What is My Character Like?"

Lesson 3 -Noticing Patterns, Seeing More: Growing Theories about a Character

Character jot

Lesson 4- Growing Bigger Theories about a Character: Asking Why

Theory on Opal

Lesson 5- 

Using Theories about Characters to Predict

Prediction jot

rubric to help you make a high level prediction

Lesson 6- 

Taking Stock and Self-Assessing: Looking at Checklists, Noticing Strengths and Weaknesses, and Making New Reading Goals

post-it self assessment

jot assessment

Lesson 7- Stories Are Shaped Like a Mountain: Readers Watch Characters Go Up — and Down- video

Jamboard- story mountain

Story mountain- graphic organizer

Peter’s Chair by Ezra Jack Keats

Story mountain

organizer

Lesson 8- Readers Expect Characters to Face—and React to—Trouble

 Pip animated short film

rubric- inferring about characters and other story elements

Lesson 9 - Readers Notice the Roles Secondary Characters Play in the Main Character’s Journey

Character/Secondary Character- jot template

Person Template

Looking at literature closely

Lesson 10 - Noticing the Roles Illustrations Play in a Story

State Test Questions for Illustrations supporting the text. -slides

Lesson 11- Readers Pay Close Attention to the Climax of a Story. Noticing How the Main Character is Tested

Lesson 12- Readers Notice How a Character Resolves Big Trouble

characters face and react to trouble jot

Lesson 13- Readers Learn Lessons Alongside Their Characters

Main character and secondary character jots

Character Change jot

Lesson 14- Lingering with a Story after It’s Done: Looking Back to Analyze Author’s Craft

jot 

Compare/Contrast Chart  from the movie and book "Because of Winn Dixie" 

Jots ideas when reading

• Comprehension Check Bookmark

• Bookmark with strategies

• Readers Climb a Hurdle of Hard Words

• Stop and jots for a high level prediction , 

• Prediction jots , 

• Retelling big ideas

• Bookmark with strategies

• Authors leave clues

MYSTERY READING UNIT

RESOURCES

• Youtube read aloud Absent Author

• Nate the Great and the phony Clue

• Mystery Anchor chart 

Epic Digital Collection of Mysteries

• Video for Grown Ups: Introduction to Mystery Reading Unit

• Parent letter to understand our mystery unit

• Strong Reading Partner chart

• prediction Learning Progressions chart 

• Chart of tricky parts

• Chart- co-detectives

• retell/summary learning progressions

• chart- how do mysteries tend to go

• Chart- Mystery Readers Look For...

• mystery words chart 

• Text relationships

• How to find hidden clues

• close reading chart

• Talking about close reading

• Make reading smooth

• sample of a retell from chapter 7

• Orienting to a text

• Readers of Fiction vs Mystery chart

• Transitional words to help write a summary

• Envisioning and Predicting Chart

LESSONS

• Lesson 1-  Whodunit

• Lesson 2 - Mystery Readers Try to Solve the Mystery Before the Crime Solver Does

• Lesson 3 -Mystery Readers Do a Special Kind of Predicting: Suspects, Opportunities, and Motives

• Lesson 4: When the Going Gets Tough, Readers Need Strategies

• Lesson 5: Thoughtful Writing and Talking About Reading 

•  Lesson 7: Holding Onto the Mystery, Even When the Book Is Long and Tricky

•  Lesson 9 -Reading On, Influenced by Knowing How Mysteries Usually Go 

• Lesson 11- The Red Herring

• Lesson 12 Finding Hidden Clues

• Lesson 13- What Kind of Mind-Work Does this Mystery Want the Reader To Do?

• Lesson 15- Readers Apply the Work of One Kind of Fiction to ALL Fiction

• Session 16- Fiction Readers Solve Mysteries That Relate to Character and Plot

• Session 17- Using Clues to Drive Predictions

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Jotting for Mystery books:

• Jot for the beginning of mystery books:   What is the Mystery? Who are the crime solvers? 

• T-Chart Suspects and Clues 

• Use template to jot your suspects motive and opportunity 

• Suspect O Meter 

• Chart - Ways to Strengthen Writing

• chart- how do mysteries tend to go

• Chart- Mystery Readers Look For...

• At the end of books try a summary- retell/summary learning progressions