This unit focuses on reading comprehension and the strategies students need in order to be successful readers. Over a course of two months students will:

• read a book and write a book report in Classroom
• write during every lesson to build writing confidence but also to help students remember what their book is about from lesson to lesson
• discuss and write about the elements of a book: setting, plot, character, etc.
• read different fact texts and answer comprehension questions
• we will discuss various strategies for finding out words that are unfamiliar without the use of a dictionary
• test vocabulary from the texts

We will also look at how to write a book review and the grammar that one might need to do so.

• Book Review Basics: summary, opinion based on simple analysis (Were the characters realistic, convincing? Was the setting realistic? What did you think about the plot?)
• Grammar: has / have, am / are,  verbs: think, feel, know, to be

Formative Assessment:

• students notes on their story in notebook / classroom
• students performance on vocabulary tests

Summative Assessment:

• Book Review
• Grammar test & reading strategy test
• Short interview about student’s book

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