Each week work on Vocabulary, homonyms, synonyms, antonyms’, context, definitions, word orgins

August

1. Introduction to Reading Workshop/ Biography & Autobiography

• Journal writing/as extended reading response

2. Team Reading Team up with Local town and school library for Team Reading

• Materials to read come to class everyday
• Reading Log—Date & Time—Silent Reading
• Effort put forth for your team
• Journal entry about reading materials
• Preview & Predict Strategy
• Use a Reading strategy-Check & Change Prediction

3. Vocabulary Lessons

September

• Reading Log—Date & Time—Silent Reading
• Journal entry about reading materials
• Preview & Predict Strategy
• Use a Reading strategy-Check & Change Prediction
• Comprehension (“” pg 254-280) & Bloom’s Questions
• Summarizing
• Connection
• Conclusion
• Vocabulary
• 5 W ?s for nonfiction
• 5 W ?s for newspaper article
• Facts or opinions

 Read aloud Biography & Mini Lessons Teacher Model

• Pre-reading
• Listening Activity
• Character Webs
• Plot may & story element web Story can’t-Journal Write
• Mini Lesson- Beginning the book
• Ending the Book

4. Assessments

• Book Talks with teacher
• Retell book with teacher
• Journal writing
•  Dibels Check/speed and retell
•  Lower Students Reading Ability

October

Read on own Nonfiction Book

Mini Lessons:

• Main Ideas
• Details
• Opinion or Fact
• Comprehension
• Vocabulary
• Dibels Check-Monthly(speed & retell)
• Group Students Reading Ability-For small group instruction

November

Novel Unit Realistic Fiction

• Research Author
• Inquiry Method
• Background information
• Teacher Model Reading
• Choral Reading
• Partner Reading
• Small Groups with teacher instruction
• Character Analysis
• Character Web
• Sequence of events\
• Journal writing
• Setting
• Comprehension questions with teacher?
• Realistic vs. fiction
• Inferential

December

• Oral Reading
• Analogies
• Book report over Novel
• Design a Christmas card
• Write a Hallmark verse
• Listening speaks
• Prefix
• Suffix
• Root Words

January

• Silent Reading
• Oral Reading
• Choral Reading
• Comprehension Strategies
• Timed Readings
• Extended Response
• Vocabulary
• Journal Response Writing
• Evaluate Reading Material for descriptions
• Evaluate Written Summary of Material Read

February

• Pyramid building(hierarchy of thinking skills
• Book Talks with Teacher and individuals
• Keep a Reading Log
• Figurative Language
• Analogies
• Context Clues
• Synonyms
• Antonyms
• Vocabulary

March

• Comprehension
  • Analogies
  • Compare/Contrast Strategies
  • Character Development
  • Vocabulary
  • Prediction
  • Character Analysis
  • Plot of story
  • Setting-Clues within story
  • Critical Analysis of story
  • Prediction
  • Science Fiction Genre

April

• Nathaniel Hawthorn Introduction
  • Oral Reading
  • Choral Reading
  • Summarizing
  • Reflections
  • Dialogue
  • Author's Viewpoint
  • Characters various viewpoints
  • Dialogue
  • Reader's Theater—Choral Readings
  • Story Maps
  • Vocabulary

May

• Prediction – Change Prediction or Confirm
  • Story Clues for Character Analysis
  • Cause and Effect
  • Think-a-louds
  • Daily Journal Writing
  • Read and Enjoy Poems
  • Fiction Genre
  • Nonfiction Genre
  • Compare/ Contrast
  • Vocabulary