It is so important to cultivate a classroom of thoughtful readers the first few weeks of school! Why not take the pressure of planning off you? These tried and true lessons will help you launch and instill best reading practices in your students that will last throughout the year and a lifetime. Resources are included in each launch lesson to continue using these strategies with texts of your choice or texts in your reading program. Everything you need is included:

• detailed lesson plans
• visuals (photos) that guide your instruction (anchor charts)
• interactive activities that engage your students
• book recommendations
• essential questions that promote great student discussions
• AND all the necessary printables or resources to support good reading practices/strategies throughout the year- objectives (I can statements), handouts, interactive notebook templates, reference guides, concept sorts, video links, etc...

⭐YOU SAVE OVER 30% with this BUNDLE⭐

This bundle is a comprehensive series that focuses on five (& growing!) important strategies to becoming a good reader, including what good readers do (Wolf!), questioning (Where's the Beef?), visualization (The Salamander Room), activating prior knowledge (The Popcorn Book) to connect new learning, and using fluency skills practice (Crocodile's Toothache).

~ This series “Seed Lessons for Growing Thoughtful Readers” keeps growing as I fine-tune and add lessons that cultivate 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 foundations for active reading throughout the year. In a nutshell, these lessons have been put to the test by both me, my students, and other ELA teachers in my school that I've shared these with. They have been tried, tested, and tweaked to make it a WIN-WIN for both students and teachers!

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

Along with very detailed lesson plans, here’s what you get in this comprehensive 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 to 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 new learning with prior knowledge.

This highly-engaging reading strategy anchor lesson gives you everything you need at your finger tips and is so versatile. You can:

• revisit this strategy using other nonfiction text of your choice
• tie in seasonal themes by using this lesson structure with your favorite seasonal nonfiction read alouds
• Get the most out of your lesson by using this lesson structure to activate students' prior knowledge in content learning i.e. science or social studies concepts

My students ABSOLUTELY loved this lesson and think it is "the bomb diggity" in their student language. ❤️It is such a win-win when a lesson is fun to teach, and students are highly engaged and excited as well.❤️

This detailed step-by-step 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 and students ❤️love❤️ about the lessons in this series:

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐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!"

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Suzanne F. wrote- "I am always looking for great resources to help step up my instruction. I think I found a winner. I love your organization."

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐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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