MISD
Literacy Block
Units 3-5
Meet Common Core
State Standards
Literacy Block Components
O Read Aloud
O Shared Reading
O Guided Reading
O Independent Reading
Identify the unit activities that address two or
more strands of CCSS: Reading, Writing,
Language, and Speaking and Listening
O Read Aloud
O Writing: Thematic
O Shared Reading
O Guided Reading
O Independent
Reading
O Strategies That Work
O GHR for Summary,
Multiple-Choice,
Craft
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Prompts/Quick
Writes
Focus Questions
Vocabulary in
Context
Fluency
Research
Units Meet Common Core
Reading Anchor Standards
O Read Aloud correlates with Standards 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9.
O Shared Reading correlates with Standards 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9.
O Guided Reading correlates with Standards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9.
O Independent Reading correlates Standards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and
10.
O Strategies That Work correlates with Standards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
and 10.
O GHR for Summary/Multiple-Choice/Craft correlates with Standards 1,
2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.
O Writing: Thematic Prompts/Quick Writes correlate with Standards 1, 2,
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10.
O Focus Questions correlate with Standards 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, and 10.
O Vocabulary in Context correlates with Standards 4 and 10.
O Fluency correlates with Standards 4 and 10.
O Research correlates with Standards 7 and 10.
The great books you have asked us to keep…
O 3rd The Hit-Away Kid with The
Detroit Tigers and Oil Spill!
O 4th Sadako and the Thousand
Paper Cranes and Poppy
O 5th The Sign of the Beaver
and The Fighting Ground
Reading
Literature balanced
with related
Informational Text
Plus Short, Snappy Articles
O “Saving
Big Cats: and “Vanishing Frogs”
O “Moose on the Move”
and “6.5 and Counting”
O “Penobscot Indians” and “Hessian Soldiers”
for Guided Highlighted Reading
Guided Highlighted Reading
OPrompts
OMultiple-Choice
OSummary
From Guided Highlighted Reading: A Close-Reading Strategy for Navigating Complex Text,
Weber, Nelson, and Schofield, 2011, Maupin House.
Preparing for Reading
O Vocabulary
O Focus for Reading/Listening
O “Walk Through” Book Features
O Genre Defined
Discussion and Review
O Focus for Reading
(parenthesis)
O Guided Reading
(notes)
O Focus Questions
Research
Research Opportunities
O 3rd Oil Spill!
Deepwater Horizon
O 4th Poppy
character names
O 5th The Fighting Ground
American Revolution
Writing
O Common Core Genres
O Reading/Writing Thematic
Prompts
O Focus Questions
O Quick Writes
Common Core Writing
O Opinion (Argument)
O Informational/Explanatory
O Narrative
Reading/Writing
Thematic Prompts
3rd Oil Spill!
O “Taking Care of Animals”
O “To the Rescue of Birds in Oil Spill:
A Fifth Grader”
O Prompt: “Each individual is an important
part of society”
Writing Prompts
O Explanations and ideas
O Checklist (CCSS)
O Writing Process
O Graphic Organizer
O Peer Editing Questions
Focus Questions
OPrompt
OAnswer Plan
OPossible Answer
Speaking and Listening
O Come to discussions prepared, having read or studied required
material; explicitly draw on that preparation and other information
known about the topic to explore ideas under discussion.
O Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in
respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a
time about the topics and texts under discussion).
O Ask questions to check understanding of information presented,
stay on topic, and link their comments to the remarks of others.
O Explain their own ideas and understanding in light of the
discussion.
Fluency
O Reader’s Theater
O Choral Reading
O Story Theater
Thank You!
Advisory Team
Original Authors
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Clare Baxter 3rd Roseville
Diana Ronayne 3rd Mount Clemens
Linda Pelloni 3rd Lakeview
Sue Francek 3rd Roseville
Marcia Powell 4th Van Dyke
Mary Dombro 4th Anchor Bay
Renee Fiema 4th L’Anse Creuse
Sandy Hudkins 4th Van Dyke
Cathy Walle 5th Consultant
Dave Figurski 5th Warren
Debbie Parrish 5th Fraser
Jackie Rybinski 5th Warren
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Clare Baxter, Consultant
Diane Berg, Consultant
Virginia Daniels, Fraser
Betsy Facione, Utica
Mary Kate Fitzpatrick, Fraser
Theresa Hasenauer, Utica
Melissa Labadie, Utica
Stephanie La Belle, Van Dyke
Kathy Ming, Consultant
Debbie Parrish, Consultant
Sharon Rice, Van Dyke
Elaine Weber, MISD
Thank You!
MISD for
encouragement
and support
Breakout Sessions
OGrade 3: Room 203
OGrade 4: Room 100B
OGrade 5: Room 201