Grade 5 - Reading

• Unit 1

• Unit 2

• Unit 3

• Unit 4

Session 1

• Taking charge of Your Reading Life

• Shoring up the essentials

• Reminding readers to work with resolve

• Checking in on goal-setting

Session 2

• Writing Well about Reading

• Starting to assess readers; Conducting running records

• Checking on volume and pace of reading

• Recording thoughts about books

Session 3

• Writing about Reading Means Reading with a Writerly Wide-Awakeness

• Helping students invest in their writing - and then make it better

• Seeing more means seeing a whole variety of story elements

• Letting one thought lead to more

Session 4

• Grounding Your Thinking in the Text and Carrying It with You as You Read On

• Working with struggling and advanced readers

• Setting up to reread

• Using higher-level thought prompts

Session 5

• Whose Story Is This, Anyway?: Considering Perspective and Its Effects

Session 6

• Learning to Think Analytically

• Fostering transfer of analytic thinking

• REaders think analytically about case and effect

• Sharing our best work and learning from others

Session 7

• Having Second Thoughts: Revising Writing about Reading

• Helping students find ideas that are worth exploring

• Revisiting key parts of the text to spur revision

• Letting partner feedback spur our revisions

Session 8

• Launching Interpretation Book Clubs

• Using guided reading, scaffold readers to move up a notch

• Remind students to read alertly, not letting the details just pass by them

• Setting up book clubs

Session 9

• Characters—and Readers—Find Meaning in the Midst of Struggle

• The close link between assessment and teaching

• Looking for places where characters seem to realize something or change

• Writing and talking about texts to uncover life lessons, challenges, important shifts

Session 10

• Seeing a Text through the Eyes of Other Readers

• Helping individuals and clubs prepare to meet

• When reviewing books, readers include their passionate responses to them

• Holding state-of-the-art book club conversations

Session 11

• Linking Ideas to Build Larger Theories and Interpretations

• Using thought prompts as a tool for revising theories

• Small seed ideas can grow

• Following and staying with ideas

Session 12

•  Reading On, with Interpretations in Mind

• Pushing students toward higher levels of interpretation work

• Remember to carry our conversational prompts with us

• Pushing to connect interpretations that at first seem unrelated

Session 13

• Debating to Prompt Rich Book Conversation: Readers Have Different Viewpoints, Defending with Claims, Reasons, and Evidence

• Assessing how students find debatable topics and prepare for debate

• Preparing for debates - deciding sides and prioritizing reasons and evidence

• Debating to lead to more complex thinking

Session 14

• Reflecting on Ourselves as Book Clubs

• Methods for teaching into book clubs

• Ask clubs to set goals for strengthening their talk before sending them off to read independently

• Using a learning progression to assess and set goals for determining themes

Session 15

• Two Texts, One Theme: A Comparison Study

• Supporting clubs as they think across two texts

• Rereading key scenes to uncover new details about build stronger interpretations

• Using thought prompts to help express the similarities and differences we see across the texts

Session 16

• Rethinking Themes to Allow for More Complexity

Session 17

• Comparing Characters’ Connections to a Theme

• Theme and perspective in assessment-based teaching

• Considering characters who don't support the theme

• Revising theme statements to incorporate more characters' perspectives

Session 18

• Studying the Choices an Author Did Not Make to Better Understand the Ones They Did

• Supporting students as they balance ambitious reading goals with rich interpretation

• Studying texts side by side

• Self-assessing to set new goals

Session 19

• Delving Deeper into Literary Analysis: Reading as Writers

• Digging deeper

• Adding new techniques and goals to our sheets

• Comparing and contrasting authors' craft

Session 20

• Celebrating with a Literary Salon