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| Unit 1: Interpreting Characters: The Heart of the Story |
| Session 1: Reading Intensely: Building a Foundation to Grow Substantial Ideas |
| Session 2: Taking Responsibility for Reading Lots of Within-Reach Books |
| Session 3: Collaborating to Create a Culture of Reading: An All-Hands-on-Deck Call |
| Session 4: Retelling and Synthesizing to Cement Comprehension |
| Session 5: Envisionment: Seeing and Hearing Inside the Text |
| Session 6: Using Partners and Learning Progressions to Lift the Level of Your Work |
| Session 7: Reading to Develop Defensible Ideas about Characters |
| Session 8: Developing Significant Ideas: Using the Story Arc to Notice Important Details about Characters |
| Session 9: Growing Grounded, Significant Ideas by Noticing Author’s Craft: Finding Meaning in Repeated Details |
| Session 10: Improving Theories by Reaching for Precise Academic Language |
| Session 11: Finding Complications in Characters |
| Session 12: Debating to Prompt Rich Book Conversation |
| Session 13: Grounding Evidence Back in the Text |
| Session 14: Looking Beyond Characters: Studying Other Elements of Story |
| Session 15: Looking Through Many Lenses at Not Just a Scene—But at the Whole Story So Far |
| Session 16: Connecting Thoughts to Build Interpretations |
| Session 17: A Method for Crystallizing Central Interpretations |
| Session 18: Finding Meaning in Recurring Images, Objects and Details |
| Session 19: Celebration: Creating a Self-Portrait in Books |
| Unit 2: Reading the Weather, Reading the World |
| Session 1: Reading and Learning with Intensity |
| Session 2: To Learn from Nonfiction, Readers Get Their Mental Arms around the Text |
| Session 3: Text Structures Help Accentuate What Matters |
| Session 4: Embracing the Challenge of Nonfiction Reading |
| Session 5: The Challenges Posed by Texts that Are Structured as Hybrids |
| Session 6: Tackling Tricky Vocabulary through Reading, Note-Taking, and Conversation |
| Session 7: Summary Boot Camp |
| Session 8: Planning for a Research Project |
| Session 9: Synthesis |
| Session 10: Reading Various Types of Texts |
| Session 11: Writing to Grow Research-Based Ideas |
| Session 12: Don’t Skip the Hard Stuff |
| Session 13: Celebration: Teaching One Another |
| Session 14: Reading and Thinking Across Two Topics: Comparing and Contrasting |
| Session 15: Seeking Out Patterns and Relationships |
| Session 16: New Topics Lead to New Investigations |
| Session 17: Readers Come to Texts with Their Own Agenda |
| Session 18: Evaluating Sources |
| Session 19: Reading Closely, Thinking Deeply |
| Session 20: Analyzing Craft: Studying How Nonfiction Authors Achieve Their Goals |
| Session 21: Imagining Possibilities, Celebrating Activism |
| Unit 3: Reading History: The American Revolution |
| Session 1: Researchers Orient Themselves to a Text Set |
| Session 2: Readers Use Text Structures to Organize Incoming Information and Notes |
| Session 3: Special Challenges of Researching History |
| Session 4: Prioritizing—Notetaking on What’s Really Important |
| Session 5: Synthesizing across Texts |
| Session 6: The Role of Emblematic Detail in Nonfiction |
| Session 7: Readers Develop Strategies for Reading Primary Sources |
| Session 8: Readers Bring Their Topics to Life |
| Session 9: A Celebration of Learning |
| Session 10: Recognizing Different Perspectives |
| Session 11: Readers Find—and Angle—Evidence to Support Their Claim |
| Session 12: Rehearsing a Debate |
| Session 13: Staging a Second Continental Congress Debate |
| Session 14: Building the Prior Knowledge that Makes Texts Accessible |
| Session 15: Strategies for Tackling Increasingly Complex Texts |
| Session 16: Readers Study All Parts of a Text to Determine Main Ideas |
| Session 17: Readers Alter Their Strategies Based on the Kind of Text They Are Reading |
| Session 18: Developing a Richer Conceptual Knowledge of Key Vocabulary |
| Session 19: Questioning and Hypothesizing to Reach Deeper Conclusions |
| Session 20: Reading History for Universal Messages, for Meaning |
| Unit 4: Historical Fiction Clubs |
| Session 1: Reading Analytically at the Start of a Book |
| Session 2: Monitoring for Sense: Fitting the Pieces Together |
| Session 3: Thinking across Timelines: Fitting History and Characters Together |
| Session 4: Characters’ Perspectives Are Shaped by Their Roles |
| Session 5: Making Significance |
| Session 6: Seeing Big Ideas in Small Details |
| Session 7: Determining Themes |
| Session 8: Deepening Interpretation through Collaboration and Close Reading |
| Session 9: Attending to Minor Characters |
| Session 10: Self-assessing Using Qualities of a Strong Interpretation |
| Session 11: Turning to Primary Sources to Better Understand History |
| Session 12: Turning Reading into a Project: Add Background Information to Deepen Understanding |
| Session 13: Readers Learn History from Historical Narratives |
| Session 14: Some People’s Perspective Is Not All People’s Perspective |
| Session 15: Seeing Power in Its Many Forms |
| Session 16: Finding Thematic Connections across Texts |
| Session 17: Celebration |