This resource includes a reading unit to teach theme to upper elementary and middle school ELA students in 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. This theme reading unit includes, reading response examples, mini lessons, interactive notebooks pages, genre reading posters, rubrics, and assessments.
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This unit includes everything you need to teach the topic of theme:
- Mini-lessons
- Interactive notebook pages with examples
- Common-core standard alignment
- Teacher data collections sheets
- Rubrics
- Pre- assessments and post-assessments with all answer keys
In each lesson you will find the following format:
- Title
- Objective
- Common Core Standards for 4th, 5th, and 6th grades
- Materials Needed
- Mini-Lesson
- Reader’s Workshop
- Closing
There are 10 mini-lessons in the unit
- Pre-Assessment
- Using Prior Knowledge to Understand Theme
- What Is Theme?
- Why Is Theme Important?
- Reading Response One
- Using Familiar Books To Understand Theme
- Digging Deeper
- Reading Response Two
- Theme Cumulating Activity
- Post-Assessment.
