This week we are digging deeper into comprehension concepts in our new unit. This unit will focus on a more intense character study. Whereas previous units relied heavily on the reading process, this unit is designed to help students understand the power of story. It teaches the comprehension skills of empathy, envisionment, and prediction that bolster student engagement with a fiction text. It relies on the knowledge of story elements and on the skills that are foundational for literal and inferential comprehension. This unit supports first grade readers as they track the events of a story to determine importance and retell key details in sequence. It also teaches students to pay close attention to their characters to grow ideas about how they feel and think. In addition this unit supports children as they dig deeper and pull life lessons from their stories. Finally it encourages readers to recommend favorite books and pass along those life lessons. This unit was created to assist students in comprehending increasingly complex texts.Our culminating activity at the end of this unit is the children performing reader's theater!
Essential Questions:
How do readers keep track of the events in a story?
How do partners share their reading adventures?
How do readers study the characters in books?
What important lessons can I learn from the character and their experiences?
How do readers share their opinions about books?
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