This unit is designed to rally students to take charge of their jobs as readers and propel themselves into harder texts. It sets children up to be able to read increasingly complex text with fluency, accuracy, and comprehension, all of which require the development of great problem-solving skills. In this unit, we help students realize that they have the strategies to be in charge of their own reading, and have the tools they need to help themselves when that job gets tough. This way they can move past the initial impulse to say “Help me,” when meaning breaks down. This unit moves through four parts: strengthening readers’ abilities to monitor their reading and take action when they encounter problems, developing efficient strategies for word solving, maintaining comprehension in longer texts, and putting it all together with fluency.
The texts the students are tackling now in their independent and instructional books are much more complex than they were even a few short months ago. The demand on taking the known strategies to the next level and applying what they've learned about spelling patterns has increased.
In addition to stressing strategies to solve longer words, we are also going to do some more vocabulary specific work. Many students can read with ease and fluency, but have no idea the meaning of some of the words they read! Since we read for meaning, to understand, and learn, vocabulary strategies are important as well!
Essential Questions for this unit:
What do readers do when they make mistakes?
What do readers do when they come to a word they don't know?
What do readers do when their reading doesn’t make sense?
Why is reading with fluency important?
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