Readers Workshop

We are beginning to shift from Unit 7: Fluency to Unit 8: Deeper Comprehension. As we move away from the focus on fluency, please keep working with your child to make their reading smooth (not too fast, not too slow), accurate, and expressive.

Unit 8 will cover a range of reading skills and strategies that they will need for the rest of their life as a reader. These will be taught more in depth in 2nd grade and beyond. Here is our scope and sequence- some lessons may be taught over a continuum of days.

Good Readers:
    •    retell using story elements
    •    retell and have a partner check
    •    retell (summarize)
    •    relate (connect)
    •    predict
    •    ask questions
    •    answer questions (w's)
    •    support answers with evidence from the text
    •    think about what the character does AND says to learn more about them
    •    think about character traits
    •    think about characters to predict and understand beyond the text (infer)
    •    picture the story (visualize)
    •    make deeper connections (T to T, T to S, T to W)
    •    use background knowledge (schema)