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Focusing on reading stamina, fluency, and engagement while reading.
Focusing on reading stamina, fluency, and engagement while reading.
Up the Ladder Reading: Nonfiction is for upper-grade readers who are new to the norms and culture of reading workshop, and for readers who would benefit from foundational instruction in the skills of reading nonfiction. By instilling strong habits and routines, this unit will support students in taking charge of their own reading lives and reading nonfiction with curiosity and engagement as they learn deeply about the world around them.
Building a nonfiction reading life
Building a nonfiction reading life
Session 1
Reading to be fascinated
Keeping students' reading energy high
Sharing fascinating details with partners
Session 2
Readers notice details and ask questions
Support engagement and just-right nonfiction reading
Readers share new knowledge with partners
Session 3
Choosing just-right nonfiction
Building students' identities as proficient readers of nonfiction
Teaching about a topic to solidify understanding
Session 4
Reading flexibly
Predicting while reading
Sharing predictions of how a text will go
Session 5
Taking action to clear up confusion
Helping readers monitor for meaning in nonfiction
Session 6
Taking stock and setting goals
figuring out main ideas
figuring out main ideas
Session 7
Introductions and text features are clues to main ideas
Supporting readers at all levels in determining main ideas
Text-feature walks
Session 8
Repeated parts can be clues to the main idea
Supporting students in determining main ideas in nonfiction
Summarizing to reinforce learning
Session 9
Multiple main ideas
Supporting students in main idea work
Putting smaller ideas together into Big, Main, Central Ideas, and Organizing Them
Session 10
Rereading differently for different purposes
Balancing rereading and reading volume
Sharing our reading
Session 11
Thinking in response to what you learning
Support raders in a deeper understanding of their texts
Changing our thinking as we read
Session 12
Writing about reading
Supporting students with note-taking work
Celebrating the end of the bend by revisiting goals
reading narrative nonfiction
reading narrative nonfiction
Session 13
Getting a grip on narrative nonfiction by first focusing on elements of story
Supporting book choice and helping students to bring familiar strategies to their narrative nonfiction
Sharing thinking about character traits in biographies and true stories
Session 14
Reading nonfiction with filters
Checking in around big goals
Analyzing and explaining how new information fits with the story
Session 15
Studying character in narrative nonfiction to make interpretations
Helping readers understand characters in narrative nonfiction
Analyzing and explaining how new information fits with the story
Session 16
Envisioning narrative nonfiction texts in richer ways by including information
Supporting work around fluency, synthesis, and goal-setting
Acting out key scenes
Session 17
Inferring to gain new insights about subjects and information
Attending to authorship
Attending to text features
Session 18
Nonfiction readers teach others what they've learned
Support students in creating efficient, effective projects
Celebrating our learning by teaching others
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