Sample Focus Lesson Trajectory: Grade 3: Reading is Thinking (Oct–Nov)

Lesson 1  ​Readers follow their inner conversation. ​ ​	Lesson 2  ​ Readers follow their inner conversation: Readers think in different ways.	Lesson 3 ​ Readers leave tracks of their inner conversation with Post-its and use reading journals as a place to save thoughts.	Lesson 4 ​ Readers use tracks of thinking (notes) to talk with a partner. ​
Lesson 5 ​ Actively Listening to Grow Thinking ​	Lesson 6 ​Actively Listening: Really Listening: What it looks like, sounds like, feels like ​	Lesson 7   Readers notice when they stray from their inner conversation. ​ ​	Lesson 8 ​ Readers know when they don’t understand.   Fix Up Strategy: Rereading and reading on to clarify meaning
Lesson 9   Readers know when they don’t understand.   Fix-Up Strategy: Using text features to help clarify meaning	Lesson 10 ​-------------------------------> ​ ​	Lesson 11   Readers know when they don’t understand.   Fix-Up Strategy: Adjusting the pace of reading to clarify  ​	Lesson 12   Exploring Thinking: Developing theories about characters using evidence and learning to write a response ​
Lesson 12b   Exploring Thinking: Developing theories about characters using evidence and writing a response	Lesson 13   Read, Stop, and Jot to hold onto evidence to support your thinking  ​	Lesson 14 ​ Read, Jot, Talk to explain your thinking ​	Lesson 15 ​Read, Jot, Talk, and Revise Thinking ​
Lesson 16   Exploring Thinking: If you can say it, then you can write it. ​Read, Jot, Talk, Revise, and Write to explain your thinking	Repeat lessons 13–16 with several texts to build quality of oral articulation and, in turn, quality of writing. ​	------------------------------->	------------------------------>

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