Unit Overview: Subject: Grade: Duration: Big Ideas: Summative Assessment

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Unit Overview

Subject Reading: Schema/ Making Grade: 1&2 Duration: 4 weeks


: Connections

Big Ideas: Summative Assessment:


G1 Stories and other texts Journal responses tracking
help us learn about ourselves Two column charts
and our families. Turn and Talk Discussions
G2 Stories and other texts connect us to Independent reading conference discussions
ourselves, our families, and our communities.

Unit Understandings: Content:


Define the Strategy G1/2 Strategies and processes
What is schema and how do readers use it? -reading strategies
-oral language strategies
-metacognitive strategies

Transfer: Essential Questions:


What is schema?
Recognize our understanding is connected to How do readers use their schema to help them
our experiences understand the text?
Our schema helps us understand what we What is a connection?
see, hear, and read How do readers make connections?
Connections help us strengthen How does making connections help you
understanding and recall of information understand the characters?
How does making connections help you
make/revise predictions?
What is a:
-Text to self connections
-Text to text connections
-Text to World
How does genre help you to comprehend the text.
Why does schema changes as we read?
How does schema for an author help you
understand the text?

Concepts: Curricular Competencies:


G1/2 Read fluently at grade level
Communication Use sources of information and prior knowledge to
Connections make meaning
Relationships Use developmentally appropriate reading,
listening, and viewing strategies to make meaning
Use personal experience and knowledge to
First People’s Principles of Learning:
connect to stories and other texts to make meaning
Learning is embedded in memory, history, Show awareness of how story in First Peoples
and story. cultures connects people to family and community

Core Competencies:
Unit Overview

Critical Thinking and Reflective Thinking


-Analyzing and critiquing
Communicating
-Focusing on intent and purpose

Lesson Planning
Suggested Lessons: Resources:
See Schema Lesson plans
Resources / Related Books
Text
Writing and Drawing
The Pain and the Great One
The Relatives Came, Cynthia Rylant
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Koala Lou
Julius, Baby of the World
Fireflies
The Pain and the Great One
My Rotten Red-Headed Older Brother
Someday a Tree
A Chair for my Mother
Diary of a Wombat
Swimmy
Fish is Fish

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