Grade 6 - Reading

• Unit 1

• Unit 2

• Unit 3

• Unit 4

Session 1

• Read-Aloud: Reading with engagement and fascination right from the introduction

Session 2

• Generating questions and ideas that spark rich club conversations

• Lifting the level of work through quick table conferences

• Drawing on all you know to hold powerful book-club conversations

Session 3

• Determining central ideas

• Supporting foundational work around a central idea

• Setting ambitious reading goals

Session 4

• Rethinking initial ideas

• Strengthening students' literal comprehension

• Capturing thinking about central ideas in book clubs

Session 5

• Learning from the stories embedded in nonfiction texts

• Supporting book clubs with a repertoire of work

• Fascinated readers read all about a topic

Session 6

• Ideas have roots: Tracing how ideas are developed across a text

• Supporting students as they analyze the role parts of the text play

• Analyzing writing about reading in clubs

Session 7

• Self-assessing and goal-setting

• Supporting goal-setting and the work of the bend

• "Speed Dating" research topics

Session 8

• Read-Aloud: Building up a bit of background knowledge when you encounter a new topic

Session 9

• Drawing on all you know to tackle new projects with more skill

• Teaching to support transference

• Prioritizing time with texts you can read

Session 10

• Summarizing complex texts

• Predictable work to help students with summarizing

• Self-assessing summaries and setting goals

Session 11

• Synthesizing across texts

• Supporting the complex work of synthesizing across texts

• Synthesizing across texts as you talk

Session 12

• Dealing with tricky parts: Reading outside the text to help you comprehend inside

• Using a partner to make sense of harder parts of nonfiction texts

• Collaborating to build up background knowledge

Session 13

• Getting to know the lingo of your topic

• Helping students build robust vocabularies

• Sorting and resorting to develop a deeper understanding of a topic

Session 14

• Readers don't wait to do their own thinking

• Supporting students in growing ideas

• Taking long to develop ideas

Session 15

• Developing carefully curated text sets

Session 16

• Launching a new round of research groups with greater independence

• Rallying students to the work of the new bend

• Tracking progress toward goals

Session 17

• Inquiry into the particular challenges of online research

• Supporting predictable problems with online research

• Exhibiting challenges of online research

Session 18

• Read-Aloud: Determining the author's point of view and how it's advanced

Session 19

• Dealing with texts that contradict each other

• Flexibly drawing on the work of the unit and reading critically

• Supporting student-run research groups

Session 20

• Crafting TED talks to get others fascinated by your topic