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| Unit 1: Second-Grade Reading Growth Spurt |
| Session 1: Readers Choose How to Read |
| Session 2: Second-Grade Readers Take a Sneak Peek to Decide How a Book Wants to Be Read |
| Session 3: Readers Get Stronger by Reading a Lot! |
| Session 4: Readers Read in Longer Phrases, Scooping Up Snap Words |
| Session 5: Keeping Tabs on Comprehension |
| Session 6: Second Graders Can Mark Their Thinking with a Post-It |
| Session 7: Second-Graders Roll Up Their Sleeves to Figure Out Tricky Words, Drawing on Everything They Know |
| Session 8: Readers Use More Than One Strategy at a Time: Figuring Out What Makes Sense and Checking the First Letters |
| Session 9: Some Beginnings and Endings Can Be Read in a Snap! |
| Session 10: Don’t Forget the Middle! Readers Are Flexible When They Encounter Vowel Teams in Tricky Words |
| Session 11: Readers Have Strategies for Figuring Out Brand-New Words, Too |
| Session 12: Readers Check Themselves and Their Reading |
| Session 13: Authors Have Intentions |
| Session 14: Readers Don’t Just Notice Craft Moves—They Try Them! |
| Session 15: Readers Think about How the Whole Book Clicks Together, Noticing Masterful Writing |
| Session 16: Readers Think, “What Does the Author Want to Teach Me?” |
| Session 17: Celebrate How Much Readers Have Grown! |
| Unit 2: Reading Nonfiction |
| Session 1: Nonfiction Readers Notice and Learn |
| Session 2: Nonfiction Readers Notice, Learn, and Question |
| Session 3: Nonfiction Readers Ask, “What Is This Book Teaching Me?” |
| Session 4: Nonfiction Readers Ask, “How Does This Book Go?” |
| Session 5: Celebrate the Gift of Learning Something New |
| Session 6: Anticipating and Using the Lingo of a Nonfiction Topic |
| Session 7: Using Text Features to Notice and Understand Keywords |
| Session 8: Using Context to Build Knowledge of Unknown Words |
| Session 9: Solving Words Takes Strategic and Flexible Thinking |
| Session 10: Rereading Like Experts |
| Session 11: Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk! Using Lingo to Teach Others |
| Session 12: Growing Knowledge across Books! Getting Ready to Read (and Learn) a Bunch! |
| Session 13: Nonfiction Readers Add Information across Books |
| Session 14: Thinking and Rethinking about How Information Is Connected across Books |
| Session 15: Finding, Thinking, and Talking about What Is the Same and What Is Different |
| Session 16: Readers Retell Topics, Not Just Books |
| Session 17: Getting Ready for the Celebration |
| Session 18: Celebration: Pay It Forward by Teaching Others |
| Unit 3: Bigger Books Mean Amping Up Reading Power |
| Session 1: Rehearsing Reading Voices |
| Session 2: Scooping Up Words into Phrases |
| Session 3: Noticing Dialogue Tags |
| Session 4: Using Meaning to Read Fluently |
| Session 5: Reading at a Just-Right Pace |
| Session 6: Recognizing Literary Language |
| Session 7: Understanding Comparisons |
| Session 8: Noticing When Authors Play with Words |
| Session 9: Reading as a Writer— Focusing on Special Language |
| Session 10: Setting Up Routines for Same-Book Partners |
| Session 11: Holding On to Stories Even When Books Are Long |
| Session 12: Staying on Track When Books Get Tricky |
| Session 13: Using Writing to Solve Reading Problems |
| Session 14: Self-Assessing and Setting Goals |
| Session 15: Organizing Goal Clubs |
| Session 16: Giving Feedback to Group Members |
| Session 17: Celebration |
| Unit 4: Series Book Clubs |
| Session 1: Series Book Readers Collect Information about the Main Characters |
| Session 2: Series Book Readers Pay Attention to How Characters Respond to Problems |
| Session 3: Series Book Readers Notice Similarities in Their Characters across a Series |
| Session 4: Series Book Readers Grow to Understand the Characters |
| Session 5: Series Book Readers Use What They Know about the Characters to Predict |
| Session 6: Series Book Readers Learn about Characters from Their Relationships with Other Characters |
| Session 7: Authors Paint Pictures with Words |
| Session 8: Authors Use Precise Words |
| Session 9: Authors Use Literary Language to Make the Ordinary Extraordinary |
| Session 10: Authors Think about How Whole Stories—and Series—Will Go |
| Session 11: Authors Have Ways to Bring Stories to Life |
| Session 12: Authors Plan Their Story Endings |
| Session 13: When Readers Love a Series, They Can’t Keep It to Themselves |
| Session 14: Planning the Very Best Way to Share a Book |
| Session 15: Readers Share Books They Love with Friends: A Book Swap |
| Session 16: Sharing Opinions by Debating |
| Session 17: Celebration: Supporting Reasons with Examples to Strengthen Debate Work |