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Frindle: A Guiding Reading Unit Unit PlanFrindle: A Guiding Reading Unit Unit Plan
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Frindle: A Guiding Reading Unit

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Guide your class through a reading of the popular children's book, Frindle, with this comprehensive literature unit. Starting with a brief introduction to the guided reading process, the class goes on to read the story two chapters at a time, completing a series of worksheets and graphic organizers that focus on reading comprehension strategies like making predictions, inferences, and judgements.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

guided reading, reading comprehension, summarizing, children's literature, realistic fiction, show not tell, making predictions, point of view

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Include time during the unit for whole group discussions about the novel, allowing students to exchange ideas with classmates outside of their reading groups
  • Create a workbook out of the worksheets and graphic organizers, having students turn in their work at the end of the unit

Classroom Considerations

  • Class copies of the book Frindle by Andrew Clements is required to implement this book study unit
  • Depending on the needs of your specific students, decide whether homogenous or heterogenous grouping is best for this unit

Pros

  • Provides a clear procedure and list of student expectations for the guided reading process
  • Brief, one-sentence summaries provided for each page of the book are provided
  • A paragraph-writing checklist is provided to support children with completing the end-of-unit essay

Cons

  • Teacher must create his/her own list of vocabulary words to address while reading the story

Common Core

RL.3.1 RL.3.2 RL.3.3 RL.3.6 RL.4.1 RL.4.2 RL.4.3 RL.4.6 RL.5.1 RL.5.2 RL.5.3 RL.5.6 W.3.1.a W.3.4 W.4.1.a W.4.4 W.5.1.a W.5.4

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