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

August

Introduction to Reading Workshop/ Biography & Autobiography

• Journal writing/as extended reading response

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
  • Journal entry about reading materials
  • Preview & Predict Strategy
  • Use a Reading strategy-Check & Change Prediction

September

• Use a Reading strategy-Check & Change Prediction
• Comprehension - Bloom’s Questions
• Summarizing
• Connection
• Conclusion
• Vocabulary
• 5 W ?s for nonfiction
• 5 W ?s for newspaper article
• Facts or opinions
• Varieties of Genres

 Read aloud Biography & Mini Lessons Teacher Model

• Pre-reading
• Listening Activity
• Character Webs
• Plot & story element
• Mini Lesson- Beginning the book
• Ending the Book

  Read on own Nonfiction Book

• Main Ideas
• Details
• Opinion or Fact
• Comprehension
• Inferential Questions
• Outline
• Compare/Contrast
• Vocabulary
• Assessments
• Dibels Check-Monthly
• Lower Students Reading Ability
• Check #of words / minute and # of words for comprehension
• Journal written response
• Book talks-Monthly

October

Read on own Nonfiction Book

      Mini Lessons:

• Main Ideas
• Details
• Opinion or Fact
• Comprehension
• Inferential Questions
• Compare/Contrast
• Vocabulary
• Lower Students Reading Ability
• Check # of words / minute and # of words for comprehension
• Genre- Romance Fiction, Mystery
• Character Analysis
• Reading Strategies-Highlighting, T-notes, Venn Diagrams, Think-alouds
•  literal, interpretative, applied words
• Book Talks
• Epitaphs

November

Novel Unit Realistic Fiction-The Red Pony

• Literary Circles
  • 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 w/groups
• Teacher assess group work
• Analogies
• Book report over Novel
• Design a Christmas card
• Write a Hallmark verse
• Listening skills

January

• Write Book Reviews-Fiction Group Work
• Figures of Speech
• Silent Reading
• Book Logs
• Book Talk with teacher
• Book talks with small group
• Write letter to a character in their book
• Investigate Research Theme from fiction novel
• Brainstorm questions to research in group
• Idioms
• Vocabulary work—word parts
• Writer's voice
• Paraphrase
• Setting Extension
• Dibels
• Journal Writing

February

• T-Notes
• Extended Responses
• Movie Mystery Plots
• Fuctional Reading and comprehension
• Vocabulary homograph
• ISAT Preparation

March

• Analogies
• Denotation/ Connotation of words
• Context Clues
• Greek Mythology
• Listening Strategies
• Set the scene
• Character analysis
• Myth's Plot
• Sequence
• Summarizing

April

• Critical Thinking
• Compare /Contrast Myth
• Write Favorite Myth
• Drama
• Dialogue
• Analyze Script—Parts
• Character's analysis
• Problems within script
• Theme
• Action
• Climax
• Reflection

May

• Current Issues -- comprehension
• Opinions—based on facts
• Persuasive articles
• Poems—Project
• The Road Not Taken by R. Frost
• Write Reflections of Poems
• Narrative Poems
• Sonnets
• Lyric
• Elegy
• Ode
• Limerick
• Ballad
• Poetry Terms