Fantasy Book Clubs
Bend 1: Constructing and Navigating Other Worlds
- Researching the Setting
- Learning alongside the Main Character
A Day for Assessment
- Keeping Track of Problems that Multiply
- Suspending Judgment: Characters (and Places) Are Not Always What They Seem
- Reflecting on Learning and Raising the Level of Book Clubs
Bend 2: More Than Dwarves: Metaphors, Life Lessons, Quests, and Thematic Patterns
- Here Be Dragons: Thinking Metaphorically
- Readers Learn Real-Life Lessons from Fantastical Characters
- Quests Can Be Internal as Well as External
- Comparing Themes in Fantasy and History
- Self-Assessing Using Reading Progressions
Bend 3: When Fact and Fantasy Collide
- Using Information to Better Understand Fantasy Stories
- Using Vocabulary Strategies to Figure Out Unfamiliar Words
- Fantasy Characters are Complex
- Investigating Symbolism
- Interpreting Allegories in Fantasy Stories
Bend 4: Literary Traditions: Connecting Fantasy to Other Genres
- Paying Attention to How Cultures Are Portrayed in Stories
- Identifying Archetypes
- Reading across Texts with Critical Lenses
- The Lessons We Learn from Reading Fantasy Can Lift Our Reading of Everything
- Happily Ever After: Celebrating Fantasy and Our Quest To Be Even Stronger Readers
A Day for Assessment
Fantasy Book Clubs Homework
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Anchor Charts
Learning Progression
Older Units:
Argument and Advocacy: Researching Debatable Issues
Bend 1: Investigating Issues
- Argument Intensive
- Organizing an Ethical Research Life to Investigate an Issue
- Letting Nonfiction Reading on an Issue Spur Flash-Debates
- Mining Texts for Relevant Information
- Strengthening Club Work
- Readers Think and Wonder as They Read
- Summarizing to Hold onto What is Most Essential
- "Arguing to Learn"
Bend 2: Raising the Level of Research
- Moving Beyond Considering One Debatable Question
- Raising the Level of Annotating Texts
- Reaching to Tackle More Difficult Texts
- Who Said What?: Studying Perspective
- Considering Craft
- Evaluating Arguments
- Day of Shared Learning
Bend 3: Researching a New Issue with More Agency
- Diving into New Research with More Agency and Independence
- Letting Conversations Spark New Ideas
- Talking and Writing Analytically across Sources
- Reading Nonfiction with the Lens of Power
- Advocacy
- Readers Take Their Research-Debating Selves into the World
Homework: Argument and Advocacy
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Tackling Complexity: Moving Up Levels of Nonfiction
Bend 1: Working with Text Complexity
- The More You Know, the More You See
- Orienting to More Complex Texts
- Uncovering What Makes a Main Idea Complex
- Strategies for Determining Implicit Main Ideas
- Using Context to Determine the Meaning of Vocabulary in Complex Texts
- Inquiry into Using Morphology of Words to Tackle Tricky Vocabulary
- Complex Thinking about Structure
- Rising to the Challenges of Nonfiction
- Summarizing as Texts Get Harder
Bend 2: Applying Knowledge about Nonfiction Reading to Inquiry Projects
- Learning from Sources
- Learn from Primary Research
- Coming to Texts as Experts
- Writing about Reading in Nonfiction
- Lifting the Level of Questions (using DOK) to Drive Research Forward
- Synthesizing across Subtopics
- Writing about Reading: From Big Ideas to Specifics
- Comparing and Contrasting What Authors Say (and How They Say It)
- Critically Reading Our Texts, Our Topics, and Our Lives
- Living Differently because of Research