FOURTH GRADE LITERARY ESSAY WRITING UNIT
|Reader’s Workshop Launch |
|4th Grade |
|Desired Results for the Unit |
|GOALS (What are our relevant goals for this unit?) |
|-Students will learn the expectations of the reading workshop including routines and roles of individuals and teachers |
|-Students will know themselves as readers (selecting appropriate books, strategies and managing talk) |
|OUTCOMES OF UNDERSTANDING (To achieve our goals, what understandings will be needed?) |ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: (What essential questions will focus our goals, stimulate conversation, and guide |
|Students will… |our actions?) |
|-Self select appropriate books | |
|-Build stamina and volume in reading (reading logs) |What do you know about yourself as a reader? |
|-Practice reading strategies (summarization, prediction, |What do good readers do? |
|questioning, visualizing, inferring, synthesizing) |How do the expectations of reader’s workshop help me become a better reader? |
|-Be writing about reading in their readers notebooks | |
|-Be able to thoughtfully talk about books and reflect | |
|about their reading | |
|Assessment Evidence |
|CULMINATING PROJECTS AND PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF LEARNING: |INFORMAL ASSESSMENTS: (What are the key observable indicators of short and long term progress? What data |
| |should be collected?) |
|-Co-created charts: Just right books, parts of a workshop, growing | |
|conversations |Running records |
|-Book recommendation |Conferences |
|Resources |
|UNIT RESOURCES: (What materials and resources are needed to support this unit?) |STUDENT RESOURCES: |
|TC Lessons Lanching the Readers Workshop |Readers Notebook, Reading logs, post-its, realistic fictions books, |
|Suggested read alouds: | |
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|Date | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY |
|WEEK 1: |Good readers have strategies for |Good readers reread to recall where |Good readers reread to regain focus and|Good readers benefit from getting to |Good readers try to increase our |
| |choosing books such as looking over |they left off when they last read a |to get the meaning of what they are |know themselves as readers. |stamina by pushing themselves to read|
| |the cover and reading a page to see |book. |reading. |What kind of books do I like? |more. |
| |if they can read it smoothly. | | |How much do I usually read during | |
| | | | |school reading time? | |
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| | | | |(Introduce Post-Its) | |
|WEEK 2: | Good readers have people who know |Good readers make recommendations to |Good readers keep track of their |Good readers remember what they have |Mini-lesson designed to lift the |
| |them as readers and take |other readers by comparing the book |reading in reading logs. |read. They stop periodically as they |level of your students retelling. |
| |recommendations from them of books to|to other books and by telling a bit | |read to ask “Whose in this book?” and| |
| |read. |about the character. | |“What is happening?” |Listen to those retelling to figure |
| | | | | |out what the most important tips are |
| | | | | |that you can give them. |
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|WEEK 3: |Mini-lesson designed to lift the |Mini-lesson designed to lift the |Mini-lesson designed to lift the level |Good readers summarize a book by |Good readers think about the |
| |level of your students retelling. |level of your students retelling. |of your students retelling. |retelling the story across their |characters in a story and notice what|
| | | | |fingers. |the characters want. |
| |Listen to those retelling to figure |Listen to those retelling to figure |Listen to those retelling to figure out| | |
| |out what the most important tips are |out what the most important tips are |what the most important tips are that | | |
| |that you can give them. |that you can give them. |you can give them. | | |
|Week 4: |Good readers reread when they feel as|Good readers hold on to the story |Good readers build a world of the story|Good readers build a world of the |Good readers have ideas about the |
| |if they are “losing” the story. |from chapter to chapter by asking “Is|as they read by thinking about |story as they read by thinking about |books that they read. |
| | |the scene continuing? Are the |characters and what might happen. |characters and what might happen. | |
| | |characters in the same place? Are | | |- Add a column to the reading log. |
| | |they doing the same thing?” | | | |
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