Below is the Units for Lucy Calkins Reading:
Unit 1:
Building a Reading Life
Unit 2:
Mysteries: Foundational Skills in Disguise
Unit 3:
Reading to Learn: Grasping Main Ideas and Text Structures
Unit 4:
Character Studies
Unit 5:
Research Clubs
We will cover the common core standards throughout these units. We will be learning about:
*Asking/Answering Questions; Plot and Setting; Character traits, actions, and motivations
*Main Idea & Details; Relationships between a series of historical events, scientific ideas, and steps in technical procedures
*Recounting/Summarizing Literature, Fables, Folk Tales, & Myths; Determining the central message or theme in fiction
*Text Structure: sequence, compare/contrast, cause/effect
*Prose, Poetry, & Drama
*Point of View; Compare & Contrast texts on the same topic
*Point of View; Compare & Contrast stories; Literature Illustrations
*Text Features; Search Tools; Non-fiction Illustrations
Unit 1:
Building a Reading Life
Unit 2:
Mysteries: Foundational Skills in Disguise
Unit 3:
Reading to Learn: Grasping Main Ideas and Text Structures
Unit 4:
Character Studies
Unit 5:
Research Clubs
We will cover the common core standards throughout these units. We will be learning about:
*Asking/Answering Questions; Plot and Setting; Character traits, actions, and motivations
*Main Idea & Details; Relationships between a series of historical events, scientific ideas, and steps in technical procedures
*Recounting/Summarizing Literature, Fables, Folk Tales, & Myths; Determining the central message or theme in fiction
*Text Structure: sequence, compare/contrast, cause/effect
*Prose, Poetry, & Drama
*Point of View; Compare & Contrast texts on the same topic
*Point of View; Compare & Contrast stories; Literature Illustrations
*Text Features; Search Tools; Non-fiction Illustrations