Reading comprehension lessons on using schema / background knowledge, posters, graphic organizers, and materials for your Kindergarten or first grade students!

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This reading comprehension strategies unit is designed to teach students how to use background knowledge (schema) to comprehend fiction and nonfiction. The lessons use real literature, and you can select books from a list of many different suggestions.

Through minilessons that gradually release responsibility, your students will learn to:

- Use their schema (background knowledge) to make text-to-self connections to fiction and nonfiction text

- Make connections that are useful and relevant

- Use their schema to understand characters' feelings and actions

- Revise their schema as they encounter new information

This unit contains:

- 11 clear minilessons that will last for about 3 weeks

- Printable posters and visual aids

- Graphic organizers to go with the lesson plans

- Tips for setting up the reading workshop and conferring with students

- Planning and organization templates

- Common Core alignment and clear goals

- Checklists and rubrics

- Differentiation materials for Kindergarten and first grade

- Real photographs of sample anchor charts

- List of suggested texts for use with the unit (you can use the books you already have in your classroom - the lessons do not require that you use one specific text)

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By: Learning At The Primary Pond