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| Title | Overview | Grade | Average Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Read Around Ball for Fantasy and Science Fiction | In the first part of this lesson, the students review the concept of "genre," discuss the major characteristics of the Fantasy and Science Fiction genres and subgenres and explore their similarities and differences. The next segment of the lesson is a “Read Around Ball,” in which students move from table to table for a read around, where each student spends 30 seconds with each book, recording their favorite book in their “dance cards.” | 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 | |
| George Washington: Was he a responsible family man as well as a great leader? | As a team effort, students will write a letter of recommendation to the editor of a local newspaper supporting the idea that George Washington was a good father and a great leader of our country. Essential Questions: What are primary sources? How could George Washington be a good father if he had no children of his own? Was George Washington a great leader? Why did he deserve to have a place on Mt. Rushmore? | 3, 4, 5 | |
| Dr. Seuss and Read Across America | The essential question, What important facts about Dr. Seuss influenced the Read Across America movement in America? This lesson is designed to teach students to analyze the life and works of Dr. Seuss and to infer why he was important to the Read Across America movement. Students will use note taking skills to write their paragraph from reliable, teacher selected sources. | 5, 6 | |
| Find the Figurative Language | Fifth grade students identify figurative language and demonstrate their meaning in a multimedia project. Essential questions are: What is figurative language? How does it enhance our understanding and our enjoyment of reading? | 5 | |
| Passport Through the Library | Students will use the pictorial chart to learn about the 300’s nonfiction section. These pictorial clues will aid students in decoding topic names and encourage practice in number recognition. Students will identify, locate, and evaluate items in the 300’s section of the library for personal interest. The essential questions are: Am I able to locate my topics of personal interest in the 300’s section of the library? Am I able to evaluate my personal choices? | K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 | |
| Check it out... nonfiction can be fun! | During this unit, the students cultivate their own curiosity as they explore a broad range of nonfiction topics and learn about interesting ways information can be communicated in nonfiction. They immerse themselves in various topics of interest to them and then select one of those topics to research with a partner in depth. Partners then write, revise, and publish an informational piece about that topic to share with the class. | 5 | |
| Discovering Reference Resources | Students will learn what information is included in a variety of reference resources (both print and electronic), and how to use them. The students will complete a task within each of the resources presented. Essential Questions: What are the different formats in which reference information is presented? What are three reference sources you could use when researching an important figure from American History? | 5, 6 | |
| In Case of Emergency | Fifth grade students will investigate local natural disasters, specifically focusing on the preparedness for natural disasters, and produce a news broadcast based on their research for school's morning announcements. The students will use various resources to locate necessary information in order to answer the essential question: How should you be prepared in the event of natural disaster? | 5 | |
| Asking research questions | What makes a good research question? We will be exploring the difference between fact-based questions or "closed" questions and questions that require making inferences and synthesizing information or "open" questions. We will discuss why open questions make better research questions. | 5, 6 |