Decision 1:
Content Map of Unit
Topic: Reading Comprehension - I
Key Learning(s):
Unit Essential Question(s):
The student uses a variety of strategies to gain
meaning from grade-level text.
Concept:
predict
Lesson Essential Questions:
How does making predictions
help me understand text?
Vocabulary:
predict, text
Grade: 2nd
Concept
question
Lesson Essential Questions:
How does generating
questions before, during, and
after reading facilitate
comprehension?
Vocabulary:
self-monitor, comprehension
What helps me to make sense of what I read?
Concept:
summarize
Lesson Essential Questions:
How does summarizing
content in text help me to be a
better reader?
Concept:
fact and opinion
Lesson Essential Questions:
What are the characteristics
that help me to distinguish
between fact and fiction?
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
summarize
fact, fiction
Assessment:
*Thinking Skill EQ
Decision 1:
Content Map of Unit
Topic: Reading Comprehension I
Key Learning(s):
Unit Essential Question(s):
The student uses a variety of strategies to gain
meaning from grade-level text.
Concept:
inferences
Lesson Essential Questions:
How can I identify and infer
the main idea and supporting
details?
Vocabulary:
inference, main idea, details
Grade: 2nd
Concept
plot
What helps me to make sense of what I read?
Concept:
setting
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Questions:
How do I recognize plot?
How do I identify setting?
Vocabulary:
plot
Vocabulary:
setting
Concept:
character
Lesson Essential Questions:
How do I identify characters
in a text?
Vocabulary:
character
Assessment:
*Thinking Skill EQ
Decision 1:
Content Map of Unit
Topic: Reading Comprehension - I
Key Learning(s):
Unit Essential Question(s):
The student uses a variety of strategies to gain
meaning from grade-level text.
Concept:
compare/contrast
Concept
genre
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Questions:
How do I compare/contrast
plot, setting, and character?
How do I identify fictional
genres?
Vocabulary:
plot, setting, character,
compare, contrast, narrative
Grade: 2nd
Vocabulary:
genre, poetry, fable, folktale,
mystery, biography
What helps me to make sense of what I read?
Concept:
reference
Lesson Essential Questions:
How do I locate information
using titles, tables of content,
and chapter headings?
Vocabulary:
title, table of contents, chapter
heading
Concept:
strategy
Lesson Essential Questions:
What strategies will help me
gain meaning from text?
Vocabulary:
strategy
Assessment:
*Thinking Skill EQ
Decision 1:
Content Map of Unit
Topic: Reading Comprehension I
Key Learning(s):
Unit Essential Question(s):
The student uses a variety of strategies to gain
meaning from grade-level text.
Concept:
reading for information and
pleasure
Lesson Essential Questions:
How do I read differently for
information and pleasure?
Vocabulary:
Grade: 2nd
Concept
inference
Lesson Essential Questions:
What is the difference
between explicit facts and
implicit facts? How do I
recognize each one?
Vocabulary:
implicit, explicit, inference
What helps me to make sense of what I read?
Concept:
meaning clues
Lesson Essential Questions:
How do I use language
structure, meaning clues,
phonetic strategies, and sight
vocabulary to gain meaning
from text?
Vocabulary:
sight vocabulary, phonics
Concept:
word parts
Lesson Essential Questions:
How do I use word parts to
determine meanings?
Vocabulary:
prefix, root word, suffix,
compounds
Assessment:
*Thinking Skill EQ
Decision 1:
Content Map of Unit
Topic: Reading Comprehension - I
Key Learning(s):
Unit Essential Question(s):
The student uses a variety of strategies to gain
meaning from grade-level text.
Concept:
Grade: 2nd
What helps me to make sense of what I read?
Concept
Concept:
Concept:
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Questions:
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
connections
Lesson Essential Questions:
How do I make connections
between texts and personal
experience?
Vocabulary:
Text to text, text to self, text
to world
Assessment:
*Thinking Skill EQ