Lucy Calkins Reading: Grade 3 Unit 1: Building a Reading Life

This unit consists of 338 slides and is based on Lucy Calkins' Reading Unit 1 Grade 3: Building a Reading Life. I've created extension slides and activities to keep the lessons interactive and engaging. There are extension ideas for each lesson, read aloud suggestions and other literacy activities included. I hope you enjoy it! :)

Contents Include:

Lesson 1: Building a Powerful Reading Life

Lesson 2: Reading as if Books are Gold

Lesson 3: Finding Within Reach books and reading tons of them

Lesson 4: Setting Goals and Tracking Progress

Lesson 5: Setting up Systems to find and share books

Lesson 6: Retelling Stories

Lesson 7: Reading in the Company of Partners

Lesson 8: Readers Check for Comprehension

Lesson 9: Getting Better Requires Clear Goals and Deliberate Work

Lesson 10: Readers Decide How to Lift the Level of our Reading and Have Partners Support Us

Lesson 11: Tackling Complex Texts Takes Grit

Lesson 12: Figuring out Hard Words

Lesson 13: Using Textual Cues to Figure Out the Meaning of Unfamiliar Words

Lesson 13b: Comparing and Contrasting Fiction Books

Lesson 14: Making Sense of Figurative Language

Lesson 15: Talking Back to the Text

Lesson 16: Raising the Level of Questions to Unearth Deeper Meanings

Lesson 17: Celebration!