Elementary School Literature Thematic Unit Plans

This low prep Kindergarten ELA and Read Aloud Curriculum is just what you need to implement a successful ELA Reading block during the first month of back to school. Unit 1 is titled Welcome to School and provides lessons and activities paired with specific read aloud picture books that require kindergarteners to focus on the theme of "How to Make the Classroom a Joyful Place".

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Is this reading curriculum for you?

✓ Are you a kindergarten teacher who NEEDS an ELA Curriculum?

✓ Were you provided with little or NO curriculum at all?

✓ Do you homeschool and need a resource that is engaging and interesting?

✓ Do you need to supplement a current program that you feel may be "lacking" or "too slow"?

Note: I do not provide copies of the books needed. You will need to purchase the books yourself, borrow from a library, or use YouTube read aloud videos!

What is Included?

⭐ 11 days of lessons

⭐ 11 Lesson Plans

⭐ 11 PowerPoint Slides

⭐ 10 Discussion Questions (one for each book)

⭐ 9 Alphabet Sounds with proper mouth formation images and movements ----- letters included in Unit 1: a (short vowel), m, s, t, e (long vowel), r, d, f, and l

⭐ 9 sight words (the, I, and, a, is, as, said, to do)

⭐ 6 Do Nows (proper letter formation, tracing lines, tracing letters, writing letters -- 1 do now for 2 lessons)

⭐ 11 Opinion discussion prompts (on the slides)

⭐ 16 Vocabulary Words (mostly 1 word per lesson, but 2 lessons have more than 1)

⭐ 11 Exit Tickets (Kinder's unit 1 teaches students how to draw a picture to answer questions)

⭐ End of Unit Assessment (Lesson 11)

What Books Are Needed:

→ Wemberly Worried

→ King of Kindergarten

→ I Like Myself

→ I Am Every Good Thing

→ The Crayon Box That Talked

→ Amazing Grace

→ Ruthie and the Not So Teeny Tiny Lie

→ Words Are Not For Hurting

→ Today I Feel Silly & Other Moods That Make My Day

→ You Hold Me Up

This resource will grow to have 8 units total. The units will focus on:

❤️ Unit 1: Welcome to School

❤️ Unit 2: Noticing Patterns in Stories

❤️ Unit 3: Celebrating Fall

❤️ Unit 4: Falling in Love with Authors and Illustrators

❤️ Unit 5: Winter Wonderland

❤️ Unit 6: What is Justice?

❤️ Unit 7: Exploring Life Cycles

❤️ Unit 8: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

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