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| Unit 1: Building a Reading Life |
| Session 1: Building a Powerful Reading Life |
| Session 2: Reading As If Books Are Gold |
| Session 3: Finding Within-Reach Books and Reading Tons of Them |
| Session 4: Setting Goals and Tracking Progress |
| Session 5: Setting Up Systems to Find and Share Books |
| Session 6: Reading in the Company of Partners |
| Session 7: Readers Check for Comprehension |
| Session 8: Follow Textual Cues as You Read: Shift between Envisioning and Assembling Facts |
| Session 9: Prediction |
| Session 10: Making Higher-Level Predictions |
| Session 11: Retelling Stories |
| Session 12: Readers Decide How to Lift the Level of Their Reading and Recruit Partners to Support Them |
| Session 13: Tackling Complex Texts Takes Grit |
| Session 14: Figuring Out Hard Words |
| Session 15: Using Textual Clues to Figure Out the Meaning of Unfamiliar Words |
| Session 16: Making Sense of Figurative Language |
| Session 17: Talking Back to the Text |
| Session 18: Raising the Level of Questions to Unearth Deeper Meaning: Considering the Author’s Purpose |
| Session 19: Celebration |
| Unit 2: Grasping Main Ideas & Text Structures |
| Session 1: Previewing Nonfiction |
| Session 2: Looking for Structure within a Nonfiction Text |
| Session 3: Grasping Main Ideas in Nonfiction Texts |
| Session 4: Becoming Experts and Teaching Others from Nonfiction Texts |
| Session 5: Tackling Complexity |
| Session 6: Getting Better Requires Clear Goals and Deliberate Work |
| Session 7: Reading for Significance: Approaching Nonfiction Reading as a Learner |
| Session 8: Reading Differently because of Conversations |
| Session 9: Distinguishing Your Own Opinion from That of the Author |
| Session 10: Lifting the Level of Students’ Talk |
| Session 11: Using Text Structure to Hold On to Meaning in Narrative Nonfiction |
| Session 12: Summarizing Narrative Nonfiction |
| Session 13: Tackling Hard Words that Complicate Meaning |
| Session 14: Reading Biographies through Different Lenses |
| Session 15: Seeking Underlying Ideas in True Stories |
| Session 16: Bringing Your Narrative Nonfiction Lenses to a Broader Range of Texts |
| Session 17: Identifying When a Text is Hybrid Nonfiction and Adjusting Accordingly |
| Session 18: Becoming Your Own Reading Coach |
| Session 19: A Celebration |
| Unit 3: Character Studies |
| Session 1: Readers Notice How a New Character Talks and Acts |
| Session 2: From Observations to Ideas: Readers Think, “What is my Character Like?” |
| Session 3: Noticing Patterns, Seeing More: Growing Theories about a Character |
| Session 4: Growing Bigger Theories about a Character: Asking Why |
| Session 5: Using Theories about Characters to Predict |
| Session 6: Taking Stock and Self-Assessing: Looking at Checklists: Noticing Strengths and Weaknesses |
| Session 7: Stories Are Shaped Like a Mountain: Readers Watch Characters Go Up—and Down |
| Session 8: Readers Expect Characters to Face—and React to—Trouble |
| Session 9: Readers Notice the Roles Secondary Characters Play in the Main Character’s Journey |
| Session 10: Noticing the Roles Illustrations Play in a Story |
| Session 11: Readers Pay Close Attention to the Climax of a Story, Noticing How the Main Character is Tested |
| Session 12: Readers Notice How a Character Resolves Big Trouble |
| Session 13: Readers Learn Sessions Alongside Their Characters |
| Session 14: Lingering with a Story after It’s Done: Looking Back to Analyze Author’s Craft |
| Session 15: Comparing Characters: Noticing Similarities and Differences |
| Session 16: Readers Compare the Problems Characters Face—And Their Reactions |
| Session 17: Readers Ask, “What Makes You Say That?” Engaging in Text-Based Mini-Arguments About Characters |
| Session 18: Comparing and Contrasting the Sessions Characters Learn |
| Session 19: Celebration |
| Unit 4: Elephants, Penguins and Frogs, Oh My! |
| Session 1: Revving Up for a Research Project: Readers Orient Themselves to a Text Set |
| Session 2: Cross-Text Synthesis |
| Session 3: Using the Lingo of Experts |
| Session 4: Zeal Matters: Pursuing Collaborative Inquiries with Commitment |
| Session 5: Growing Ideas about Nonfiction |
| Session 6: Researchers Ask Questions |
| Session 7: Planning a Second Study |
| Session 8: Reading with Volume and Fluency |
| Session 9: Readers Notice Text Structures and Use Them to Organize Their Learning |
| Session 10: Compare and Contrast |
| Session 11: Cause and Effect |
| Session 12: Reading Closely, Thinking Deeply |
| Session 13: Experts Widen Their Field of Focus and See Patterns |
| Session 14: Asking Questions, Growing Big Ideas |
| Session 15: Pursuing Questions |
| Session 16: Developing Evidence-Based Theories |
| Session 17: Adding to Theories by Researching Big-Picture Concepts |
| Session 18: Learning to Apply the Knowledge Readers Develop through Their Research |
| Session 19: Finding Solutions to Real-World Problems: A Celebration |