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Lessons & Units
Willow 1st Grade Unit
Willow
- Lexile
- AD620L
Lessons
Read-Aloud Lesson Willow Explain how Miss Hawthorn’s character changes as a result of her relationship with her student Willow, in order to discuss a theme of the story.
Paired Text Questions “Callie Learns to Listen” & Willow Integrate information from the fiction passage “Callie Learns to Listen” and the book Willow to compare characters across different texts.
These units are fabulous! I can't wait for the addition of more read alouds! Thank you ReadWorks team for all of your hard work! These lessons are extremely beneficial and valuable to me as a First Grade Teacher. Thanks again for sharing!
This program is extemely beneficial to all teachers who want to ensure reading success for their students. Thank you so much for providing relevant resources with the reading teacher in mind!
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I am looking for a first grade unit. When I went to look up the GE of the books, so my students could take an AR assessment on the book, almost all the books are 3rd grade equivilency. There was only one book from the entire list I could use, (The Dot) and even that is a 1.9. Why is that?
Hi Wendy. Thank you so much for writing and for your interest in ReadWorks - we greatly appreciate it! The text complexity measures of the books for these units are higher because they are meant to be used for read-aloud. Research shows that exposing students to more complex text through read-aloud is vital to increasing vocabulary & background knowledge, and is supportive of independent reading.