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Reading Expectations is a classroom-ready Year 1 English unit that helps students develop the routines and strategies needed for purposeful independent reading.

Students learn how to prepare a calm reading space, choose a just-right book, care for classroom books, recognise purposeful reading behaviours, use word-solving strategies, check that a sentence makes sense, reread and self-correct, read in meaningful phrases and build stamina in manageable steps.

The unit supports experiences with teacher-selected decodable texts that reflect taught sound-letter patterns and authentic classroom texts used for vocabulary, ideas, enjoyment and meaning. Colour displays, a behaviour sort, a book-care game and class-library labels support explicit teaching and discussion. Print-friendly worksheets, a two-page assessment, matching answers and a five-level rubric support practice and evidence collection.

What's included

• Editable 19-slide PowerPoint presentation, including 17 teaching slides

• Editable 22-slide PowerPoint quiz with 10 mixed questions and matching answer slides

• 26-page unit plan PDF with 25 classroom-resource pages

• Independent Reading Ready, Choose a Just-Right Book and Reading Stamina displays

• Real Reader Behaviour Sort

• Care or Repair? book-care game

• Class-library labels

• Six sequenced student worksheet topics

• Two-page assessment and six matching answer pages

• Five-level Reading Expectations rubric

Learning focus

• Establish calm, organised independent-reading routines

• Read suitable decodable and authentic classroom texts

• Choose an appropriately challenging book and care for shared books

• Use developing phonic knowledge, context and grammar to solve words and monitor meaning

• Reread and self-correct when a sentence does not make sense

• Read in meaningful phrases with developing fluency

• Set achievable stamina goals and reflect on progress

Classroom use

Use the presentation to introduce and model the routines across approximately five lessons. Reinforce each focus with the matching display, sorting activity, game or worksheet. Use the quiz for whole-class review or an individual check, and finish with the two-page assessment and rubric. The displays, labels, game and stamina tracker can remain in use after the initial teaching week.

Product details

• Year level: Year 1

• Subject: English

• Topic: Independent reading routines, book choice, book care, word-solving, meaning monitoring, phrasing and reading stamina

• Formats: PDF and editable PowerPoint

• Length: 26-page unit plan, 19-slide presentation and 22-slide quiz; 67 pages/slides in total

• Answer support: Six matching answer pages

Curriculum alignment

Australian Curriculum v9.0: AC9E1LY04
Australian Curriculum v8.4: ACELY1659
Victoria: VC2E1LY09
New South Wales: EN1-VOCAB-01, EN1-PHOKW-01, EN1-REFLU-01, EN1-RECOM-01
Western Australia: WA1ELYA2
Common Core: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.3, RF.1.3.g, RF.1.4, RF.1.4.a, RF.1.4.b, RF.1.4.c, L.1.4.a, RI.1.10, RL.1.10
England: UK-KS1-Y2-ENG-R-WR, UK-KS1-Y2-ENG-R-C
New Zealand: NZ-Y2-ENG-R-WR-D-1, D-2, D-3, F-1, D-4, D-5
Texas: TEKS-ELAR-G1-2B, G1-5, G1-6I
Ontario: CAN-G1-LANG-B2.3, B2.4, B2.8, C2.4, C3.8

Teacher benefits

• One coherent sequence connecting explicit teaching, guided practice, independent work and assessment

• Colour classroom resources and low-ink student pages

• Multi-page strategy practice for reading, thinking and reflection

• Editable presentation and quiz text

• Answer pages and a five-level rubric for efficient review

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