Grade 6 - Reading

• Unit 1

• Unit 2

• Unit 3

• Unit 4

Session 1

• Read-Aloud: Reading for trouble and discerting relationship issues

Session 2

• Weighing characters' relationships for the positive and negative - in literature and in life

• Conducting quick check-ins to assess student work - and table conferences to maximize the effect of your teaching

• Launching clubs with a shared agenda

Session 3

• Noticing how characters contribute to relationship issues through actions and reactions

• Sparking transference

• Support students in working out book club relationships, just as fictional characters resolve their relationship issues

Session 4

• Club work that fuels reading plans and deeper thoughtful talk

• Using notebook work to nudge readers into more focused interpretations and to track relationships that are complex

• Making plans to grow bring ideas

Session 5

• Read-Aloud: Analyzing how and why power affects relationships

Session 6

• Studying when character traits collide

• Deepening the relationships between strategies and bigger thinking

• Moving from colliding traits to relationship takeaways

Session 7

• Reflecting on relationships with books to decide on a future course of study

Session 8

• Read-Aloud: Thinking about groups as sources of issues

Session 9

• When people within a group struggle, it's often because of power imbalances

• Pushing readers to think more deeply about group issues and power imbalances

• Ouch/oops to be candid and mindful of others during club talk

Session 10

• Using common literary themes to think more deeply about group issues in a text

• Coaching students into finding and unpacking a variety of evidence to support thematic ideas

• Writing long to think about themes

Session 11

• The intersection of group identities with individual traits

• Coaching small groups or book clubs to find symbols in moments of harship and hope

• Groups aren't issues! Using -ism and -phobia to talk about issues that affect specific groups

Session 12

• Read-Aloud: Weighing positive and negative messages in stories

Session 13

• Investigating when texts are reinforcing and challenging assumptions about groups

• Offering a variety of reading help in mixed-book small groups

• Thinking metacognitively in book club conversations

Session 14

• Considering roles people can play when issues arise - and resolving to be upstanders

Session 15

• Bringing yourself, with all your complications, to your reading

• Supporting students to find personal connections into their books and loop back to better understand characters' experiences

• Setting ambitious reading goals as students come to the end of the unit

Session 16

• Learning from our texts and from one another

• Enhancing the work of this bend

• Connecting reading literature to the big work of trusting, understanding, and supporting others

Session 17

• Identifying with less likeable and less admirable characters

• Writing long about a meaningful word or line, thinking about groups, power, and personal history

• Finding important takeaway messages about social issues

Session 18

• Curating text sets and making plans to continue reading together