This is a nice opportunity to work with your Literacy Coach to develop a unit to support your students’ needs. During this time, you may decide to teach the Interpretation Book Clubs unit found in the online Heinemann resources, if you are not going to teach it at the end of the year. This would be a nice opportunity to nudge students into more complex narrative texts than they were reading during Social Issues. You may also decide to teach a mini-unit entitled, Strategies for Test-Taking. This is an explicit way to teach students how to apply all that they have learned about reading and writing various genres and text types to formal testing situations. This can be integrated periodically across the year, once a week in February and March, or as a mini-unit in early March before beginning Historical Fiction. To end the year, you could include a unit of choice focusing on reading across genres and include ways to plan for summer reading.
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