ELA G3:M1:U1
READING LITERARY TEXTS: OVERCOMING LEARNING CHALLENGES—SCHOOL AND EDUCATION
ELA G3:M1
ELA G3:M1:U1:L1
In this Unit
Guiding Questions and Big Ideas
The Four Ts
Assessment
Content Connections
Habits of Character
Unit-at-a-Glance
Accountable Independent Reading
Supporting English Language Learners
Texts and Resources to Buy
Preparation and Materials
Technology and Media
Additional Language and Literacy Block
Lessons
Optional Activities
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In Unit 1, students read literary texts about children who face challenges with access to education. Throughout the course of the unit, students read three literary texts: Waiting for the Biblioburro by Monica Brown, Rain School by James Rumford, and Nasreen's Secret School by Jeanette Winter. They read each text for gist, recount the text, determine its central message or lesson, and then closely read and answer text-dependent questions designed to help them explain how that central message or lesson is conveyed through details in the text. Students also identify the challenges faced by the characters and how they are able to overcome them.
Throughout the unit, students are introduced to routines and anchor charts that will be used throughout the rest of the module, as well as the rest of the year. In the first half of the unit, students learn about independent reading and discussion norms and receive their independent reading journals and vocabulary logs. For the mid-unit assessment, students discuss what they like about their independent reading books and the things that they have found challenging. In the second half of the unit, after learning how to write short constructed responses, students read a new literary text, answer selected response questions, and write short constructed responses about questions having to do with the text.