Elementary School Balanced Literacy Unit Plans

A Five-Day Plan of Shared Reading will help you prepare and stay organized. Use it with ANY book. It includes lesson plans, guides, & templates to help teachers with planning. Four different shared reading templates are included, as well as additional ideas for reading planning.

I have used this resource to plan my shared reading for the last two years. Although it will take the teacher two to three times to use it to plan their weekly shared reading lesson, it will just become so easy.

-Students love the structure and the routine. Therefore, I implement it during Social Studies and Science using Scholastic Magazines.

Who is this for:

Teachers who are looking to create a routine in the classroom and learn to plan less. Instead, follow the same procedure weekly; students will understand it and lead the lesson independently.

Why Shared Reading :

⭐ Reinforce reading skills

⭐ Expand vocabulary

⭐ Read with fluency and expression

⭐ Reinforce decoding and comprehension strategies

⭐ Reinforce phonics and phonemic awareness

Included:

⭐ Five-Day Lesson Plan aligned to the common core

⭐ Teacher’s Tips

⭐ Daily Steps

**⭐**Five-Day Shared Reading Plans with Questions prompts

**⭐**Five-Day Shared Reading Blank Template

⭐ Shared Reading Small Groups guide & Lesson Plans Template

⭐ Shared Reading Extension Activities

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Literacy Tales

Where Stories Come Alive✎

A World War 2 biography writing unit about the life of British wartime Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. The NO PREP unit has been split into four separate lessons and is perfect for students in fifth grade or sixth grade.

Included in this PDF printable resource:

• Four fact sheets which students need to cut out and sort into paragraphs
• Writing templates for four draft paragraphs
• Two prompt sheets for students to write their introduction and conclusion
• A template for students to write up their neat biography text
• A crossword puzzle & wordsearch activity to consolidate learning

If you would like to add another lesson, download my Winston Churchill Reading Comprehension Activity. This would give the students more background knowledge before they start writing the biography.

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This resource is great for:

• In class learning
• Independent work
• Homework
• Creative writing sessions
• Assessment practice
• Emergency sub plans

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The first lesson is interactive and involves students cutting out facts, and then sorting these facts into paragraphs. In the second lesson the students need to use these facts to write four paragraphs. Then, in the third lesson children need to choose the most important facts and include these in an introduction; after this they need to answer several questions on a prompt sheet before writing up their conclusion. In the final lesson students need to check their draft paragraphs for mistakes before writing up their work on to a neat copy on the template provided.

For a digital version of this resource that students can complete on tablets, phones and computers download my Winston Churchill Biography Writing | Digital & Print.

Other similar or relevant resources:

• World History Resources
• World War 2 Resources

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