• Reading
     
    I will be integrating the Reading Workshop Model into reading.  Reading Workshop is a teaching method in which the goal is to teach students strategies for reading and comprehension. This model allows teachers to differentiate and meet the needs of all their students. The format gives students tools for selecting and comprehending literature. Over the course of the year, students will read many books and will be encouraged to do as good readers do in exploring different genres, authors, and texts.  The students will learn to ask questions, make connections with prior knowledge and previously read texts, and ask questions to clarify comprehension.
     
    • Unit 1: Interpreting Characters (September- November)
      • Goal 1:Through structure and procedures, readers develop good habits in order to foster independence and create a community of readers.
      • Goal 2: Readers employ strategies to cement comprehension and understand character.
      • Goal 3: Readers revise and analyze theories through debate and conversation in order to synthesize their reading.
      • Goal 4: Readers know that characters can be windows to the world.  
    • Unit 2: Researching to Understand the World: Reading Nonfiction (November - January)
      • Goal 1: Readers analyze text and use text structures and features to learn from nonfiction.
      • Goal 2: Readers, individually and in clubs, research to develop and expand their understanding of a topic.
      • Goal 3: Readers read nonfiction text critically to analyze the credibility of their sources.
      • Goal 4: Readers identify and use domain specific vocabulary in understanding and communicating ideas from nonfiction text.
    • Unit 3: Reading and Researching Like a Historian (February - March)
      • Goal 1: In order to learn from the past, historical researchers pay special attention to people, geography and chronology and examine how they are linked together.
      • Goal 2: Readers analyze primary and secondary sources in order to gain a more comprehensive understanding of history.
      • Goal 3: Responsible historians consider all perspectives and angle evidence to develop and deliver an argument.
      • Goal 4: Readers must be resourceful word solvers who are able to draw on strategies in order to solve words.
    • Unit 4: Book Clubs: Historical Fiction (April - June)
      • Goal 1: Readers analyze how authors use craft to develop settings, characters, events, and plotlines.
      • Goal 2: Readers turn to nonfiction resources to build and extend their knowledge and understanding of a historical era.
      • Goal 3: Readers find thematic connections across texts that connect readers to the world and inspire them to live empathetic, informed lives.
      • Goal 4: Through book club conversations, readers develop ideas and learn to appreciate others’ perspectives.