Grade 6 - Reading

• Unit 1

• Unit 2

• Unit 3

• Unit 4

Session 1

• Read-Aloud: Investigating multiple character traits

Session 2

• Readers revise their thinking as they accumulate evidence

• Deepening students' talk and writing about their characters

• Making reading notebooks places where readers work with choice and ownership

Session 3

• Developing courses of study with a partner: Book choices and thinking work

Session 4

• Perceptive readers acknowledge the parts of a character that are less likeable

• Revisiting traits versus emotions

• Reflecting with partners on strongest entries in their reading notebooks

Session 5

• Read-Aloud: Investigating multiple character traits

Session 6

• Lifting the level of your writing about reading

• Matching students' writing about reading to their reading work and attending to balance

• A gallery walk to study writing about reading

Session 7

• Readers consider the pressures acting on characters

• Supporting purposeful thinking and talking about texts

• Pressuring reading partners to deepen their thinking

Session 8

• Readers reflect

Session 9

• Read-Aloud: Characters are often shaped by the mood or atmosphere of the setting

Session 10

• Readers attend to the precise language authors use to describe the setting

• Supporting students in citing texts

• Channeling partners to help each other grow ideas

Session 11

• Sometimes characters are torn by competing pressures, Including the pressures of a place

• Using bands of text complexity to introduce new reading work

• Figuring out why some parts are important to the whole of the story

Session 12

• Settings can change over time, not just physically, buy psychologically

• Genere-based small groups

• Following up on courses of study and comparing writing about reading

Session 13

• Read-Aloud: Characters acting as a group can wield enormous influence, for good or for evil

Session 14

• Settings also change in time, often bringing in backstory to develop the character

• Tracing time changes in novels: Alerting readers to cueing systems for time

• Noticing rapid and subtle time shifts through verb tense changes

Session 15

• Readers share their work and reflect on their challenges and growth

Session 16

• Read-Aloud: Characters' troubles become motifs in a story

Session 17

• Moving from motifs to themes

• Using timelines and post-its to trace motifs and themes

• Considering themes that arise in genres, series, and in works by certain authors

Session 18

• Investigating how symbolism relates to themes

• Learning more about students' reading lives

• Partners reflect on their reading lives

Session 19

• Taking charge of your collaborative reading life

• Following up on students' reading lives

• Rallying partners to talk in self-selected ways

Session 20

• Read-Aloud: Reading aloud to support repertoire and agency

Session 21

• Reflection and agency centers