SCSD Grade 5 Reading Unit 1: Overcoming Adversity ~25 instructional days/6 weeks Unit Focus: Students use a lens of adversity to explore meaningful characters who face different challenges. Through close reading and discussion, students examine how characters are crafted and how different story elements are similar and different across a text. Text Set: Teachers will use each of the following texts throughout this unit: Your Move ​
by Eve Bunting Bud, Not Buddy ​
by Christopher Paul Curtis “Everything Will be Okay” ​
by James Howe “Dreams”​
by Langston Hughes Power Standard: ​
RL.5.3: ​
Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact)​
. Supporting Standards: ​
RL.5.1, RL.5.2, SL.5.1, W.5.1, W.5.4, L.5.1 Unit Outcomes: I can use specific text details to support my ideas. I can read closely to gain deeper understandings about text. I can analyze similarities and differences between characters, settings, and events in story. Final Task:​
After closely reading “Everything Will be Okay” by James Howe, compare the narrator to one of his family members. Use specific evidence from the text to compare and contrast the characters. Unit Overview Text UNIT LAUNCH Your Move 2 Bud, Not Buddy chapters 1­2 Bud, Not Buddy chapters 3­4 (Any previously introduced text) DIRECT SKILLS INSTRUCTION CLOSE READING (Any previously introduced text) DIRECT SKILLS INSTRUCTION CLOSE READING DIRECT SKILLS INSTRUCTION Bud, Not Buddy chapter 5 Bud, Not Buddy chapters 6­7 (Any previously introduced text) Bud, Not Buddy chapters 8­9 Bud, Not Buddy chapter 10 (Any previously introduced text) Bud, Not Buddy chapters 11­12 Bud, Not Buddy chapters 13­14 Bud, Not Buddy chapter 15 CLOSE READING READ ALOUD CLOSE READING WRITTEN RESPONSE TO TEXT UNIT Les
son 1 Bud, Not Buddy chapters 16­17 Bud, Not Buddy chapters 18­19 “Everything Will be Okay” 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 “Dreams” 25 Lesson Type for Whole Group Instruction Read Aloud Written Response/ Pre­Assessment Read Aloud Objective Read Aloud SWBAT to read & discuss the text to describe the story elements within the text. SWBAT complete an on­demand response to the question: ​
Compare and contrast two characters from the text. Use specific details from the text to illustrate their similarities and differences. SWBAT read the text & use habits of discussion to analyze key story elements (character, setting, major events). SWBAT read the text & use habits of discussion to analyze key story elements (character, setting, major events). SWBAT compare and contrast two characters by using categories (traits, strengths, weaknesses, how they handle challenges, likes & dislikes, etc.) and explaining what’s similar within each category and what’s different SWBAT compare and contrast two characters by analyzing how characters respond to the same major events SWBAT read & discuss the text closely to determine what the text says SWBAT read through lenses & discuss the text closely to determine how the text works and what it means SWBAT read the text & use habits of discussion to analyze key story elements (character, setting, major events). SWBAT compare and contrast two characters SWBAT compare and contrast two characters by using categories (traits, strengths, weaknesses, how they handle challenges, likes & dislikes, etc.) and explaining what’s similar within each category and what’s different. SWBAT read the text & use habits of discussion to analyze key story elements (character, setting, major events). SWBAT read & discuss the text closely to determine what the text says, how it works, and what it means in relation to the emerging themes SWBAT compare and contrast story settings by 1) tracking how the setting changes at various points in the text, 2) selecting two or more settings, 3) asking: what does this setting look and feel like? How is it similar or different to previous settings? SWBAT read & discuss how story elements change across text Read Aloud SWBAT read & discuss how story elements change across text Close Reading: Phase 1 Close Reading: Phases 2 & 3 Read Aloud SWBAT read & discuss the text closely to determine what the text says SWBAT read through lenses & discuss the text closely to determine how the text works and come to new understandings about what the text means SWBAT read & discuss the impact of secondary characters on the main character Read Aloud SWBAT read & discuss the impact of secondary characters on the main character Close Reading: Phase 1 Close Reading: Phase 2 Close Reading: Phase 3 Writing Minilesson Writing Minilesson SWBAT read & discuss the text closely to determine what the text says SWBAT read through lenses & discuss the text closely to determine how the text works SWBAT read & discuss new understandings about what the text means SWBAT draft by starting with a topic sentence and providing precise evidence. SWBAT revise to elaborate on examples with context and specificity and to make a strong introduction and conclusion. Close Reading SWBAT read & discuss the text and celebrate classmates’ hard work! Read Aloud Reading Minilesson Reading Minilesson Close Reading: Phase 1 Close Reading: Phases 2 & 3 Read Aloud Reading Minilesson Read Aloud Close Reading: Phases 1­3 Reading Minilesson CLOSING