Reading Book Club, Biographies: Getting to Know Famous People

In this unit of study, Reading Book Club,  Biographies: Getting to know Famous People the student will read biographies keeping in mind the time period, factors, and events that shaped the character’s choices and decisions in their lives. Our book club will reading  about the many  lessons taught from reading different biographies . 
     The people that we read about are real people who have done remarkable things in history. We will be learning about the adversity they faced and how they handled it. We will learn about the people or groups of people affected by the work of the person featured in the biographies. The experiences highlighted through biographies will help us better understand the world in which we live. 
    In this  Reading Biographies unit, the students will be presented information and reading strategies through the Reading Workshop mini-lesson model of instruction. The interactive lessons reflect a range of the Reading Informational skills found in the common core state standards for second and third grade. The components of each lesson includes:  a group meeting, a connection, teaching point, teaching-demonstration & discussion, active engagements-students apply new skills, link- recap learning, small group instruction & conferring to reinforce the new skill, and a share meeting at the end as the conclusion.   
    The student will be introduced to reading a biography through authentic literature using a mentor text about Benjamin Franklin. The unit introduces the students to the reading workshop structure and helps students develop reading strategies and skills in developing strong reading skills. Students will select and preview a just right text to read independently on their instructional level with their classmates. The students are guided to ask and respond to questions as they read to develop skills in key ideas and details to synthesize  and comprehend new information.

The classes include the following topics:
Session 1 Introduction to Biographies ,Text Structure & Previewing the Text
Session 2 Building Background & Vocabulary
Session 3 Main Idea and Supporting Ideas 
Session 4 Character Traits 
Session 5  Biographical Sketch- Ask and Answer Questions
Session 6  Connections to Events, Text to World 
Session 7 Authors Purpose,  What is the author trying to teach me?
Session 8 Identifying Theme and  Writing About Our Reading