Trimester 1:
Trimester 1:
Summer Reading Review/Establishing Classroom Routines
Essential Questions:
- How will building rituals and routines help in the classroom?
- How can I continue to grow as a reader while reading with a sense of purpose?
Reading Workshop/Interpretation Book Clubs (Fiction)/Narrative Writing
Essential Questions:
- How can I continue to grow as a reader while reading with a sense of purpose?
- How is this part of the story important to the whole story?
- Why do you believe the author decided to write this part of the story like this?
- What themes are important in the story?
- How can you compare and contrast themes in multiple stories?
Trimester 2:
Trimester 2:
Tackling Complexity (Nonfiction)/Informational Writing
Essential Questions:
- How can you summarize the nonfiction text?
- What are author's craft techniques that are used in the nonfiction text?
- How do techniques affect a text?
- What is the main idea of the nonfiction text?
- How can I read tricky nonfiction text and understand it?
- How can I use what I have read for research?
Poetry
Essential Questions:
- How do we dissect a poem?
- How do we break down an unknown word in a poem?
- How do we identify figurative language vocabulary and its meaning in a poem?
Trimester 3:
Trimester 3:
Fantasy Book Clubs
Essential Questions:
- How will I tackle the demanding and complex genre of fantasy?
- What strategies can I use to help me make sense of multiple plot lines, layered characters, and complex themes?
- When reading fantasy, what can I learn from uncovering deeper meanings in the text?
- How does the setting affect the story line?
MCAS Prep
Essential Question:
- How can I use my reading and writing strategies and apply them when taking online tests?
Argument and Advocacy/Opinion Writing
Essential Questions:
- How can readers recognize a good argument?
- How do readers research an argument?
- How can book club members strengthen their conversation skills?
- What does it mean to summarize an argument?
- How do readers find new ways to analyze a text?