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 |
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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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