Increase students' reading comprehension with fun and engaging anchor lessons they will apply throughout the year! This is a sampler of the comprehensive series that focuses on good reader strategies or habits:

• questioning (Where's the Beef?)
• visualization (Salamander Room)
• activating prior knowledge / schema (The Popcorn Book)
• fluency (poem: Crocodile's Toothache
• what 'good readers' do (Wolf!) - This lesson and read aloud helps students identify what reading strategies they know and introduce foundational accuracy, fluency, and comprehension strategies important to reading competency.

The FIVE-part lesson series includes detailed lesson plans, activities, templates, links to enhance the lesson, and photos of anchor charts and completed interactive notebook activities to guide your instruction.

❤️The lessons in the bundle are a win-win: ❤️

• detailed lessons make implementation easy breezy
• they are fun to teach
• they build the foundation for solid comprehension reading strategies
• students are highly engaged and excited

This FREE Sampler includes:

Thick & Thin Questions Interactive Notebook Template

Visualizing Activity (can be used with any literary text)

Note: this free download are of just the printables mentioned, but the lessons are much more than printables!

This is a sample of the following AMAZING lessons to help you launch readers workshop in a dynamic way : Seed Lessons for Growing Thoughtful Readers

~ This series “Seed Lessons for Growing Thoughtful Readers” keeps growing as I fine-tune and add lessons conducive to cultivating a classroom of thoughtful readers. These lessons are comprehensive and applicable for any classroom 3rd-5th. Each lesson is designed to launch good reading practices that lay the foundation for active reading throughout the year.

This bundle offers 30% off five lessons. You might want to check out my Comprehension Reading Strategies Posters & Graphic Organizers as well!

Here’s what you get in the bundle:

✨What Good Readers Do

This ready-to-go lesson is designed to launch good reading practices and assist in cultivating thoughtful readers. In this lesson, students define strategies used to strengthen accuracy, fluency and comprehension, and at the same time, dispel the misconceptions they might have. This lesson also includes an interactive notebook activity and concept sort that can be done as a center activity.

This detailed lesson plan includes the following:

• I can statement (for CCRA.R.10)

• An essential question to start the lesson

• Suggested read-aloud title: Wolf! By Becky Bloom, with teaching tips

• Gradual release format: I do, we do, you do..

• Formative assessment

• Interactive notebook template for this lesson: What Good Readers Do

• Photos of examples taken during the implementation of this lesson to guide your instruction throughout: charting of student responses, revisits of the chart, and interactive notebook content

• Center activity: Accuracy, fluency, comprehension concept sort-- Students sort strategies according to which component of reading they help strengthen. (Answer key also provided)

Note: This lesson spans about 60-70 minutes, therefore may take more than one day. The interactive notebook notes can be revisited throughout the year to add new strategies/practices for each component as they are taught, as well as to help set individual reading goals.

✨What Fluent Readers Do

This engaging ready-to-go lesson is designed to assist launching good reading fluency practices and cultivate thoughtful readers. In this lesson, students determine what fluent readers do or look like, and at the same time, dispel the misconceptions they might have. This lesson uses a fun poem for modeling and practicing fluency strategies, and includes materials for students to create their own fluency folder where they can keep poems and passages specifically selected throughout the year for the purpose of practicing fluency.

This detailed lesson plan includes the following:

• I can statement (for CCSS.ELA-Literacy RF.3.4, 4.4 & 5.4)

• An essential question to start the lesson

• Suggested read-aloud title: The Crocodiles Tooth, a poem by Shel Silverstein

• Gradual release format: I do, we do, you do..

• Formative assessment

• Fluency folder template & practice tips (What Fluent Readers Do), used to create students’ fluency folders

• Photos of examples taken during the implementation of this lesson to guide your instruction throughout: charting of student responses, revisits of the chart, poem

highlighting, and the construction of fluency folder

Note: This lesson spans approximately 45-60 minutes, therefore may take more than one day of whole group instructional time. The fluency folders will be used throughout the year to house poems and passages students can continue to practice during fluency center. Fluency notes can be kept in this folder as well and be revisited throughout the year to help set individual reading fluency goals.

✨Good Readers Ask THICK Questions

This ready-to-go comprehensive lesson is designed to assist launching good questioning practices and cultivate thoughtful readers. In this lesson, students determine the difference between thin and thick questions and explain the importance of deeper questioning when comprehending a text.

This detailed lesson plan includes the following:

• I can statement (for CCSS 3.1, 4.1, 5.1)

• An essential question to start the lesson

• Gradual release format: I do, we do, you do..

• Formative assessment (Post=its ready to go)

• Interactive reader’s notebook template for the two types of questions

• Ready-to-print question prompts

• Thin & Thick Question Sort with answer key

• Photos of examples taken during the implementation of this lesson to guide your instruction

✨Good Readers Visualize

This lesson is designed to introduce visualization as a strategy good readers use. In this engaging lesson, students use details from the text to visualize in their mind’s eye the scene in the story and draw a picture based on these details.

This detailed lesson plan includes the following:

• I can statement (for CCRA.R.10)

• An essential question to start the lesson

• Suggested read-aloud title: The Salamander Room, by Anne Mazer

• Gradual release format: I do, we do, you do…

• Formative assessment

• Visualization printables: one specific to anchor activity, one to be used with any story

• Photo examples of student work

✨Activating Prior Knowledge / Schema

One of the most important comprehension strategies is your students' ability to activate their prior knowledge to connect new learning. This highly engaging comprehensive resource will spark your students interest while helping them determine what they know about about a specific topic (popcorn), what they still wonder about this topic, and connect their new learning with their schema. It offers so much within the activities and with regard to repeating this anchor lesson with quality read alouds throughout the year. You can even use your favorite seasonal nonfiction read alouds with the same lesson structure and printables to revisit this strategy! My students ABSOLUTELY loved this lesson and think it is "The bomb diggity" in their student language.

This detailed lesson plan and the activities include the following:

• I can statement (for CCRA.R.10)

• An essential question to start the lesson

• Suggested read-aloud titles (Tomie dePaola / Gail Gibbons’ book titles)

• Gradual release format: I do, we do, you do…

• Formative assessment

• Schema Printables:

1. Introduction activity
2. Activating Schema
3. Connecting New Learning
4. Independently Activating Schema
5. Independently Connecting New Learning
6. Interactive Notebook Activity

• Photo examples of student work

• Links to YouTube Videos for a follow-up to reading The Popcorn Book

Note: This lesson spans approximately 50-60 minutes, therefore may take more than one day of whole group instructional time.

I wholeheartedly love teaching these lessons for establishing the use of good reading strategies and practices in the classroom.

See what other teachers ❤️love❤️ about the lessons in this series:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Lesley S. wrote- "Wow! This is what I needed. I like how you set up your anchor charts, the books you recommend, worksheets that go for each story, and anchor chart ideas. Fantastic resource!"

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Meraki wrote- "NOTHING else like this on TPT to introduce students in a fun yet explicit way to exactly how good readers approach texts. DO NOT hesitate to buy this..."

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Jill N. wrote- "This was an excellent way to help my students understand the reading strategies."

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Sandra F. wrote- "I have used this to help my students ask better and deeper questions. They loved it and more importantly, understood the difference between thick and thin questions."

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Elizabeth W. wrote- "LOVED using this with my third graders in their reading notebooks. We referred back to it so many times throughout the school year!"

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Jenifer S. wrote- "This is a fantastic resource! I especially love the lesson plans and the interactive notebook activities. I plan to purchase more of these types of products from you."

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