Narrative Reading

NARRATIVE READING

Kindergarten
F & P

Readers build good habits
Readers think and talk about emergent story books
Just right books
Turn and talk partnerships
Readers get to know characters by pretending and performing
Read alouds
Shared reading
Early reading strategies – voice print, match, look @ the picture, get your mouth ready
Stamina
Choice
Guided reading groups
Story Elements

Comprehension
Retelling (how does retelling change our grades?)
Character/setting
Problem/solution

First Grade
F & P
Decoding strategies
Developing stamina
Book talk (r partners)
Character traits
Retelling with specific evidence
Guided reading
Reading voices
Shared reading
Read- alouds
Comprehension strategies
Second Grade
Story elements
Problem/Solution
Compare/contrast
Traits
How settings effect change
Author purpose
Series study
Evidence – “How do you know that”?
Tackling challenging words

Using strategies

Author study
Retelling
Think marks
Post-Its
Build stamina
Context clues
Partnerships
Accountable talk
Guided reading
Ind. Reading
Predictions & checking predictions
Re-reading for understanding
Conferencing
Third Grade
Retelling
Characters

Actions – with supporting evidence
Traits - with supporting evidence

“Because of Winn Dixie” – Patricia Polacco
How characters change

Fables, myths, folktales. What’s the moral? Back it up.
Evidence

Author study

Finding themes!
Inferencing, predicting, connecting

Reading Binders

Logs
Stop & Jots
Post-It notes
Responding to literature
Guided Reading
Reading Partners
Conferencing
Vocabulary – re-reading
Context clues
Read alouds
Independent reading
Building stamina
RAZ Kids
Lexia
Graphic Organizers
Main Idea

Supporting details
Drawing conclusions

Fourth & Fifth Grades
Teach kids that it can be nonfiction topics in a narrative form.
Theme – Determine theme
Stamina – long and strong
Character Analysis
Reading strategies
Readers Notebook – Author’s purpose fig lang
Stop and Jots
Reading goals for each student
Partner talk/accountable talk
Book Clubs
Indep. Reading

Choosing a just right book
Understanding themselves as readers

Raz kids
Lexia
Self-monitoring/reflection
Guided reading
Read alouds/Read is thinking
Modeling/Conferencing

Vocabulary/Context Clues

Just Words
Wilson Reading; CCI
Sixth Grade

Differentiated Texts
Literary Terms (defining/finding in reading)
Realistic Fiction
Lit. circles
Chunking - post-it story for notes
Writing about reading
Text based evidenced based on literature
Reading at home for fun
Building stamina
Comparing fiction/non-fiction (shared traits, different traits)
Academic Vocabulary
Author’s Purpose
Theme
Character Analysis
Partner/group/independent reading
Close reading

Seventh Grade

Close reading
Story elements
Discovering/determining theme
IRB’s
Long Walk to Water
Short story unit
Annotating
Chunking the text
Analyzing craft
Compare/Contrast
Determining Meaning

Eighth Grade
Close reading of stories, plays, etc.
IRB’s
Story elements
Theme/Central
Idea
Vocabulary
Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Grade
Close reading and annotating of short stories, novels, and plays
Independent reading units – “How do kids choose books?”
Memoir
Book talks
For literary analysis
Selections are guided by genre
Teacher approval

Non-Narrative Reading

Kindergarten
Reading for Information

All About Books
How – to
Questions/ Answer
Noticing & Naming features
Compare/ Contrast
Partnerships
National Geographic/ Time for kids
Read a louds
Shared Reading
Comprehension
Shopping for just right books

Choice – fiction/ non-fiction

vocabulary

First Grade

Informational Texts

- All about “ How To’s”
- Gail Gibbons

Reading for Information
Features
Compare and Contrast
Partnerships
Comprehension Skills
Reading Across Genres
Informational
Mentor Text Read Alouds to support writing units

Second Grade
Topics of Interests

Research Books – Animals
Technology

-Protected websites

Convention/ Features of NF
Scholastic News
Main Idea/ Details
Comparisons

School Wide
-Benchmarks
-ie: Gail Gibbons
Partnership/ Group Work
Third Grade
Research
-Time for Kids
-Technology
-Main Idea
-Details
-Important vs. interesting details
-Conventions
-Biographies
-Supporting opinions
-Partnerships
-Stop & Jot
-Finding Answers
-Articles
-Note-taking
-Summarizing
-Guided reading
-Academic vocabulary
-Reports
-Skimming
Fourth & Fifth Grade
-Editorial
mentor texts
-Mini-lessons
-Content area features of non-narrative texts
-Time For Kids
-Current events
-Stop and Jot
-Main idea
-Fact/details
-Sequence of events
-Integrate info-from varied sources to create an informative report
-THIEVES Strategy
-Reading Strategies
-Taking Notes
-Summary /reflect
-Skim and scan
Sixth Grade
-Reading in All content areas
-Reading for a purpose: author’s purpose?
-Academic content vocab.
-Reading current events
-Connecting non-fiction to literature
-Science
-Social Studies
-Math: word problems
-Identifying literary terms in non-fiction
-Post-it note reading
-Chunking for understanding
Seventh Grade
-Close reading
-Annotating
-Articles incorporated into units
-Citing sources
-Research
-Creating
-Claims & supporting a text-based evidence
-Summarizing
-Analyzing
-Compare/contrast
-S.S. connections
Eighth Grade
-Identifying Claim
-Supporting evidence
-Author’s purpose
-Text structure
-Reading cross-curricular literature
-Identifying literary devices/ terms in non-fiction/ fiction
-Historical documents
Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh & Twelfth Grade
-Literary criticism
-Current event
-Research articles
-Poetry
-Sample letters/speeches
-Historical documents
-For Audience and Purpose
-Inference
-Technique