3rd-5th Grade Reading Unit 1 | Comprehension Strategies

This reading unit is designed to provide six weeks of detailed reading instruction for any reading workshop or guided reading classroom! In addition to the PDF file, all student pages are available digitally through Google Slides. This unit includes 30 day-by-day lessons. You'll also find pacing guides and standard alignment to keep you organized.

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Reading Comprehension

The bulk of the unit focuses on reading comprehension. There is a balance between informational reading and literature within each of the reading units. Each detailed lesson plan includes a mini lesson, independent reading time, and closing. The mini lesson typically includes a mentor text, where I give you multiple text suggestions. There is also a handout or guided practice activity for each of the 30 comprehension lessons lessons.

Skills/Concepts in Unit 1 Include:

• procedures
• visualizing
• connections
• asking and answering questions
• inferring and drawing conclusions
• making predictions
• summarizing

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Novel Studies

There are FIVE novel studies that can be used for book clubs that are aligned to the lessons within the unit! These novel studies are completely optional, so if they're not right for your students-no worries!

Novel Studies in Unit 1 Include:

• 39 Clues
• Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library
• Fish in a Tree
• One Crazy Summer
• Theodore Boone Kid Lawyer
• The Hotel Between

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Vocabulary

Each week’s vocabulary instruction follows the same format to provide consistency and easy to follow routines. All vocabulary words are Tier 2 words from the mentor texts in the reading units. Students create a vocabulary notebook or journal for their vocabulary words. The first few pages of the notebooks are used for a general word bank. The next set of pages include a word bank for prefixes and suffixes. The remainder of the notebook is for students’ weekly vocabulary practice.

• Monday-As a class produce brief definitions for each word.
• Tuesday-Brainstorm examples and non examples of each vocabulary word.
• Wednesday-Draw a picture representation of each word.
• Thursday-Students write words in high-quality sentences.
• Friday-Students take a brief vocabulary quiz over the six terms.

Fluency

Since repeated reading is one of the best ways to improve students’ reading fluency, there is one fluency passage for each week of instruction. The fluency passages

should be sent home on Monday, and students should read the passage orally to an adult each night of the school week. These passages may be sent home on an as-needed basis.

Reading Centers/Literacy Centers and/or Reading Homework

There is a weekly choice board that can be used as part of your centers or as a homework assignment. As with all parts of this unit, the choice board is completely optional. On the choice board, there are 9 reading activities for students to choose from. You can set the parameters on what activities to complete, how many activities to complete, etc.