English Language Arts Unit of Study Planning Guide

Using the Common Core Standards Grade Level: Fifth Grade Unit: Biography Study Theme: History of Civil Rights

Goals: • Students will

Essential Questions: What is the structure of a biography? What are the similarities and differences between the structures of biographies and the structures of

realistic fiction, fantasy, memoir, and historical fiction? How do biographies interconnect over time to tell history? Overview: The students will learn the text structure of a biography (chronological, birth to death). The students will create a timeline and post facts about the different people they are studying on the timeline to see the interconnectedness of the lives/texts they are reading. (Chronology on a larger scale) Students will explore the theme of civil rights (how to treat each other) as the unit progresses. The read alouds and guided reading texts will each explore the continuum of civil rights from slavery to the election of the first black president. As you go, they should feel like every day is just a continuation of the overarching story, and they will see how each of the folks they read about interconnect with the various parts of history. You put cards on the timeline from group reading (read aloud), they add cards independently from their guided reading texts and their independent reading. The unit of study will eventually weave in the various wars that were all fought because of the violation of some group’s civil rights. After each reading at least 10 biographies, each choose one person to study in-depth and write a biography from.

Tools and Data Used Tools of inquiry: Time line Note cards Dictionaries Reader’s notebook

Data collected and used by teacher: Words their Way assessment Text levels (for Guided Reading) Writing samples

Assessments - Performance Tasks

Readers’ Notebooks Other Evidence

Key Criteria Key Criteria Key Criteria

Common Core Standards Infused in Unit Reading - Literature Reading-Informational Writing

Speaking and Listening Language Social Studies

Math Science Health

Student Objectives: Thinking, written communication, products to organize and share thinking, performance Student Outcomes: (Students will know and be able to…)

1. Read and discuss biographies about characters, real and fictional. 2. Analyze, compare, and contrast the structures of different texts (genre). 3. Analyze the development and change of characters and themes over time in fiction texts. 4. Analyze and Discuss how authors use literary techniques in narration to engage the reader.

(point of view, change in setting, passage of time etc.) 5. Explore the reader’s notebook as a tool of organizing thinking about reading. This will become

the answer key to the rest of reading. An answer key (tool) they can take to Middle School. 6. Write a variety of responses to literature and informational texts. Include hand drawn thinking

scaffolds (graphic organizers). 7. Organize notes about reading in different sections (reader’s log, genre study, mini lesson notes,

glossary of terms, etc). 8. Conduct Research on authors who write about other people. What are the differences between

different authors of biographies 9. Conduct Research on wars and the civil rights movement. Also on links to any famous person’s

life. Notice the wars become a timeline as well.

10. Participate in group discussions around books and themes. 11. Participate in group projects around books and co-present thinking to class 12. Conduct Research about a person that interests you. Choose three people and explain why you

want to learn more about them. Teacher helps choose the final person. Research with note cards about the person

13. Participate in group study of Rosa Parks (or another person). Read several read alouds in a row about that person. Compare and contrast them. Synthesize information into a group mural.

14. Deconstruct teacher’s biography about Martin Luther King Jr. Label paragraphs. 15. Community write a biography on Rosa Parks 16. Write a biography independently 17. Present research (plays, timeline, mural, and wax museum of individual research).

Student Learning Targets: • I can....

Resources What are Read Alouds?

Read Alouds Summary Possible Literature Responses

The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson

An African American girl’s mom warns her to not go on the other side of the fence. It is dangerous because a little white girl lives over there. As the story unfolds, the girls become friends and they sit on the fence together. They teach others how to ignore color and fears to become friends. Even the mother starts to soften towards each other at the end.

Explain this is a realistic fiction book. Show the story structure from the fantasy introduced

First Biographies Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington was born a slave without a last name. When he was 9, the slaves were freed. This is the story of how he learned to read and write and how he started a school. Do the community writing to the right as you unpack the book. Show the timeline tool at the back of the book that matches the chart you created

Explain the structure of a biography. (Written birth to death.) Show on chart paper how to pull the important parts out of is life. Birth, young child, teen, young adult, adult, what make him famous, death, how was his vision carried forward after his death. Set it up in a graphic organizer

AGE and Date IMPORTANT EVENT

together. These tools are often found in biographies.

birth Young boy teen Young adult adult What made him famous

death How was his work carried on after his death?

Make sure to launch a guided reading group to make a poster together.

Booker T. Washington By Lola M. Schaefer

This is a very simple version of the Booker T. Washington Biography. Show how it has the same structure as yesterday, but it has a new element…a timeline. Share how the timeline works.

Have one of your top reading groups make the 3X5 card time line. Have them make a card for every 10 years starting with 1600 until 2020. Hang it across the room. Then at sharing, create some cards with the significant dates on them about Booker T. Washington and hang them on the timeline.

If you Lived When There was Slavery in America By Anne Kamma

Read this book in sections over many days. Show the timeline at the bottom. Add cards to the timeline. Make sure to add the first slaves brought to America in 1619.

On the way through make another T chart of all the things you learn about slaves in this book. Have the students help create a summary statement for each section. Put this on the left. Then have each child write during Managed Independent learning in their reader’s notebook, about what those chapters made them think about or feel.

Chapter summary

What the author’s words make me think about.

You write the first column together during interactive read aloud. Each student will copy the chart into their reader’s notebooks and fill out the other side independently. Have them share one each at the sharing circle at the end of Managed Independent learning. Each day they should add another line as you complete a chapter summary together.

Up the Learning Tree By Marcia Vaughan

This book is about a little slave boy who goes to school every day to get his master’s boy’s assignments and turn in his homework, while he is sick. The slave boy climbs a tree and listens to the teacher’s lessons. Slowly the slaveboy learns to read, even though he could have his fingers chopped off If they found out. Eventually the teacher figures it out, and gives the boy some books. The teacher ends up getting fired because she admits to helping the boy learn.

A picture book of Harriet Tubman by David Adler

Harriet Tubman was a slave. She couldn’t read or write, so she had no maps. She escaped And went north to the free states. She ended up going back to try to help other slaves escape. It was hard, but she got many people to volunteer to help. So many people helped, and so many slaves escaped,

Have a group read this book as a guided reading group the day before you use it as a read aloud. Have the group show their timeline project and share the book introduction to it. (Similar to the one that we created around Booker T. Washington.

they named her operation, The Underground Railroad. It wasn’t a real train, but a team that helped other slaves escape.

Harriet Tubman By John Rowley

Review the same structure of a biography. Compare and contrast similarities and differences in the structures and information in the two biographies. Talk about how no one can share every detail of a person’s life. It is up to the author, which interesting facts the author wants to highlight. Share the glossary and Index in this new one.

Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the sky. By Faith Ringgold

Again, same person, different way of telling the story. Why did the author choose to draw out the first escape for Harriet? Why did this author choose to bring her brother into the story? How did this new character enhance the story?

The Underground Railroad. An interactive History Adventure. By Allison Lassieur

Teach the children how this interactive adventure genre works. Do this book as a read aloud three days in a row. Have the children help you pick a different path to travel each time you read it. Ask the children why they think the author chose to write the book this way? How did it add to their experience as a reader?

Almost to Freedom By Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

This is a story about a little girl named Lindy and her families’ trip on the underground railroad as she escapes to freedom. Share with the student’s the author’s note at the end.

Written response to the reading: Why was it important for the author to include the doll as a part of the story? Why didn’t she just tell the story without the doll? How would the story have been different without the doll?

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt By Deborah Hopkins

This is a story about a little slave girl that gets taken from her mama and sold to another slave

owner. She secretly makes a quilt with a map on it that tells the way to the North. She escapes and goes to get her mama and they all follow the map North. Clara had it memorized in her head, so she left the quilt for others to follow

Under the Quilt of the Night by Deborah Hopskinson

This is another story of a slave escaping and following the freedom trail. It is written more in poetic form. In this book, the boy sees the quilt that is left hanging on the line. If the squares are the traditional red it was not a safe house. If the middle squares were blue, it was a signal that the house would hide slaves overnight and give them food.

Moses When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford

This is a more poetically written version of Harriet Tubman’s escape and building of the underground railroad

Talk about why the author chose to change the font. What does each different font mean?

Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette

An old sailor named Peg Leg Joe taught the slaves to follow the drinking gourd to freedom. He was talking about the big dipper and the North Star.

A Picture Book of Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth was a slave named Isabella. She changed her name to Sojourner Truth when she was older and free. She protested that blacks couldn’t ride in Street Cars. She even stood in front of one until it almost ran her over…until blacks were allowed to ride. She dreamed all people would be equal on day…almost 100 years before Rosa Parks.

Dear Benjamin Banneker By Andrea Davis Pinkney

Independent Reading Activities Assessments What is independent Reading?

Independent Reading Activities Assessments

Annie Oakley Who was Annie Oakley?

Anne Frank Who Was Anne Frank?

Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart (first biographies) Amelia Earhart, Young Aviator

Who Was Amelia Earhart? Amelia Earhart (by J. Sutcliffe)

Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln (by J.Schott)

Stand Tall Abe Lincoln Abe Lincoln The Young Years Who Was Abraham Lincoln? Abraham Lincoln, The Great

Emancipator

Albert Einstein Who Was Albert Einstein?

Albert Einstein, Young Thinker Albert Einstein (first biographies) Albert Einstein (By F. Wishinsky)

Odd Boy Out :Young Albert Einstein (by D. Brown)

Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor

of the Telephone

Listen Up! Alexander Graham Bell’s Talking Machine (by M.

Kulling)

Alexander Graham Bell (K. Harvey)

Alexander Graham Bell and the Telephone (A. Garmon)

Alexander Graham Bell (first biographies)

Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin (by V. Sherro)

Ben and Me (by R. Lawson) Who Was Ben Franklin ?

Benjamin Franklin (Heroes of America)

Betsy Ross Betsy Ross Designer of Our Flag

Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus, The Life

of a Master Navigator

Young Christopher Columbus Discoverer of New Worlds

Clara Barton Clara Barton, Founder of the

American Red Cross

Clara Barton, Angel of the Battlefield

Clara Barton (First Biographies) Clara Barton Battlefield Nurse

Dolley Madison Dolley Madison (J.Patrick)

Eleanor Roosevelt Who was Eleanor Roosevelt? Eleanor Roosevelt, Heroes of

America

Elizabeth the First Who Was Queen Elizabeth

Elizabeth, The Life of England’s Renaissance Queen

Ellen Ochoa Ellen Ochoa (by P. Walker)

George Washington

George Washington Soldier, Hero, President

Who Was George Washington?

George Washington Our First President

Let’s Read About George Washington

George Washington (by P. Abraham)

George Washington’s First Victory (Ready to Read)

George Washington (by C. Ransom)

George Washington Young Leader

George Washington and the General’s Dog (Step into Reading)

George Washington The Life of an American Patriot

George Washington (by A. Cohn)

Young George Washington America’s First President

Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall (First Biographies)

Jane Goodall (by G. Miklowitz)

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder (by P. Walker)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr?

Martin Luther King, Jr. (Time Trap)

If You Lived at the Time of Martin Luther King

Young Martin Luther King, Jr. “I Have A Dream”

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Martin Luther King Jr. (by P. Roop)

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey

Rosa Parks

Rosa (by N. Giovanni)

If a Bus Could Talk The Story of Rosa Parks

Who Was Rosa Parks

I am Rosa Parks

Ruby Bridges

Ruby Bridges Goes to School My True Story

Sandra Day O’Connor

Meet My Grandmother She’s a Supreme Court Justice

Sacagawea

Who Was Sacagawea?

Sacagawea American Pathfinder

Sacagawea Translator and Guide

Sacagawea Shoshone Trailblazer

Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth Voice of Freedom

Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony, Champion of Women’s Rights

Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson Strong Inside and Out (Time for Kids)

Who Was Jackie Robinson?

Jacie Robinson and the Story of All-Black Baseball

Jackie Robinson, Young Sports Trailblazer

First in the Field Baseball Hero Jackie Robinson

Teammates

Young Jackie Robinson, Baseball Hero

Jackie Robinson (Baseball Legends)

Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman A Woman of Courage (Time for Kids)

Who Was Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman The Road to Freedom

Harriet Tubman (by J. Rowley)

Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad

Helen Keller

Who Was Helen Keller?

Helen Keller, From Tragedy to Triumph

Helen Keller, Courage in the Dark

Helen Keller Crusader for the Blind and Deaf

Helen Keller (by J. Woodhouse)

Helen Keller (by J. Sutcliffe)

Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong (by D. Rau)

Neil Armstrong Young Flyer

Who Is Neil Armstrong?

Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison (National Geo)

Thomas Edison (First Bios)

Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?

Thomas A. Edison Young Inventor

Thomas Alva Edison (by H. Thomas)

Thomas Edison (by J. Shuter)

Walt Disney

Who Was Walt Disney

Walt Disney Young Movie Maker

Walt Disney, Maker of Magical Worlds

Ancient History

King Henry (by J. Hardy-Gould)

Who Was King Tut?

Mary, Bloody Mary

Can’t You Make Them Behave, King George?

Artists

Diego (by J.Winter)

Who Was William Shakespeare?

Who Was Leonardo Davinci?

Who Was Pablo Picasso?

Artists and their Art (by M.Medearis)

Authors

Who Was Dr. Seuss?

Dr. Seuss (by G. Miklowitz)

Conversations with J.K. Rowling

Five Famous Writers

Charles Schulz (Wonder Books)

Johannes Gutenberg Inventor of the Printing Press

Explorers

Who Was Marco Polo?

Matthew Henson (by M. Weidt)

Exploring the World Cabot John Cabot and the Journey to North America

Lewis and Clark (by J. Glaser)

Race to the Pole (Nat Geo)

Who was Ferdinand Magellan?

Journey to Monticello Traveling in Colonial Times

Lewis and Clark Explorers of the American West

Who Was Charles Darwin?

On Assignment: Queen Anne’s Revenge

Five Brave Explorers Great Black Heroes

Graphic Biographies

Charles Lindbergh

Sitting Bull The Life of a Lakota Sioux Chief

Cleopatra The Life of an Egyptian Queen

Richard the Lionheart The Life of a King and Crusader

Spartacus The Life of Roman Gladiator

Hernan Cortes the Life of Spanish Conquistador

Julius Caesar The Life of a Roman General

Harriet Tubman The Life of an African-American Abolitionist

Alexander the Great The Life of a King and Conqueror

George Washington The Life of an American Patriot

Abraham Lincoln The Life of American’s Sixteenth President

Inventors

Insides Steve’s Brain

Steve Jobs The Genius Who Changed Our World

Discover Sir Isaac Newton

Florence Nightingale (by R. Vickers)

Five Notable Inventors Great Black Heroes (by W. Hudson)

The Usborne Book of Inventors from DaVinci to Biro

Marie Curie (First Bios)

Five Brilliant Scientists Great Black Heroes

Starry Messenger Galileo (by P. Sis)

John Deere Blacksmith Boy

U.S. Presidents

Thomas Jefferson Third President of the United States

Who Was Thomas Jefferson?

Franklin D. Roosevelt A Leader in Troubled Times

Who is Barack Obama

Who Was Thomas Jefferson?

Who Was John F. Kennedy?

Our President: Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton Forty-second President of the United States

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Musicians

Ray Charles

Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?

Who was Elvis Presley?

Sports Heros

Childhood of Famous Americans Babe Ruth

Baseball Legends Babe Ruth

Step into Reading Babe Ruth Saves Baseball

Baseball Legends Roy Campanella

Baseball Legends Roberto Clemente

Baseball Legends Dizzy Dean

Baseball Legends

Joe Dimaggio

Baseball Legends Jimmie Foxx

Baseball Legends Rogers Hornsby

Baseball Legends Mickey Mantle

Baseball Legends Willie Mays

Baseball Legends Frank Robinson

Amazing Athletes Lance Armstrong-Biking

Amazing Athletes Tom Brady-Football

Amazing Athletes Drew Brees-Football

Amazing Athletes Dale Earnhardt Jr.-Racing

Amazing Athletes Roger Federer-Tennis

Amazing Athletes Jeff Gordon-Racing

Amazing Athletes Josh Hamilton-Baseball

Amazing Athletes Ryan Howard-Baseball

Amazing Athletes LeBron James-Basketball

Amazing Athletes Derek Jeter-Baseball

Amazing Athletes Payton Manning-Football

Amazing Athletes Yao Ming-Basketball

Amazing Athletes Steve Nash-Basketball

Amazing Athletes Dirk Nowitzki-Basketball

Amazing Athletes Shaquille O’Neal-Basketball

Amazing Athletes David Ortiz-baseball

Amazing Athletes Danica Patrick-Racing

Amazing Athletes Michael Phelps- Swimming

Amazing Athletes Albert Pujols-Baseball

Amazing Athletes Alex Rodriguez-Baseball

Amazing Athletes Johan Santana-Basebll

Amazing Athletes Maria Sharapova-Tennis

Amazing Athletes Annika Sorenstam-Golf

An autobiography Sammy Sosa

Amazing Athletes Dwyane Wade- Basketball

Amazing Athletes Shaun White-Snowboarding

Amazing Athletes Venus & Serena Williams-Tennis

Scholastic Biography Jennifer Capriati-Tennis

Jim Thorpe World’s Greatest Athlete

Childhood of Famous Americans Jim Thorpe-Olympic Champion

Leveled Readers Champion Billy Mills

Sports Legends: Pele- Soccer Babe Didrikson-Golf

Bobby Orr Star on Ice

Historical US War Leaders

Sybil Ludington’s Midnight Ride

Childhood of Famous American’s Paul Revere

Who Was Paul Revere?

And Then What Happened Paul Revere?

Graphic Library Nathan Hale Revolutionary Spy

Graphic Library The Battle of Gettysburg

Graphic Library Patrick Henry Liberty or Death

History Maker Bios Robert E. Lee

Where was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May?

Will you sign here John Hancock?

Aviators

Childhood of Famous Americans Wilbur and Orville Wright

First-Start Biography Young Orville and Wilbur Wright

Flight Charles Lindberg

Childhood of Famous Americans John Glenn

Rookie Biographies Neil Armstrong

Pioneers

An I can Read Book Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express

An I can Read Book The Long Way to a New Land

Who was Daniel Boone?

The Story of Johnny Appleseed

Who was Johnny Appleseed?

Jim Bridger: Man of the Mountains

Kit Carson Mountain Man

People on the Move

Miscellaneous

Ra Kroc Invented McDonald’s

Be My Guest Conrad Hilton

They Changed the World Short Biographies

The Story of the Pony Express

Gandhi Peaceful Warrior

Louis Pasteur’s Fight Against Microbes

Medical Pioneers

Portrait of Greatness, Gandhi, Churchill, Mandela

Cesar Chaves

Guided Reading Activities Assessments

Abigail Adams Eyewitness to America’s Birth (Time for Kids)

A Picture Book of Anne Frank Amelia Earhart

A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart Albert Einstein

What’s the Matter With Albert? A Story of Albert Einstein

Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell Inventor

of the Telephone

Benjamin Franklin A Picture Book of Benjamin

Franklin

Eleanor Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt First Lady of

the World

Harriet Tubman A Picture Book of Harriet

Tubman

Helen Keller A Picture Book of Helen Keller

Henry Ford Henry Ford Putting the World on

Wheels (Time for Kids)

Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson Strong Inside

and Out (Time for Kids)

John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy The Making of a

Leader (Time for Kids)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Let’s Read About Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rosa Parks Rosa Parks Civil Rights Pioneer A Picture Book of Rosa Parks

Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt The Time for

Kids)

What’s the Mater with Albert? A Story of Albert Einstein

Barack Obama By Jane Sutcliffe

A Picture Book of Benjamin Franklin

First Biographies Booker T. Washington

Time for Kids Biographies Eleanor Roosevelt

A Picture Book of Fredrick Douglas

A picture Book of George Washington

A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman

Time for Kids Biographies Harriet Tubman

A Woman of Courage

A Picture Book of Helen Keler

Time for Kids Biographies Henry Ford

Putting the World on Wheels

A Picture Book of Jackie Robinson

Time for Kids Biographies Jackie Robinson

Strong Inside and Out

A Picture Book of Jesse Owens

Time for Kids Biographies John F. Kennedy

The Making of a Leader

Let’s Read About Martin Luther King, Jr.

A picture Book of Rosa Parks

Time for Kids Biographies Rosa parks

Civil Rights Pioneer

Ruby Bridges Goes to School My True Story - Autobiography

The Story of Ruby Bridges By Robert Coles

A Picture Book of Sojourner Truth

Time for Kids Biographies Theodore Roosevelt

The Adventurous President

A picture Book of Thomas Jefferson

A Picture Book of Thurgood Marshall

Thomas Edison A Brilliant Inventor (Time for Kids)

Laura Ingles Wilder Easy Readers, then beginning chapter books My First Little House Books Christmas in the Big Woods

My First Little House Books County Fair

My First Little House Books Dance at Grandpa’s

My First Little House Books E Deer in the Wood

My First Little House Books A Farmer Boy Birthday

My First Little House Books Going to Town

My First Little House Books Going West

My First Little House Books A Little House Birthday

My First Little House Books A Little Prairie House

My First Little House Books Sugar Snow

My First Little House Books Summer Time in the Big Woods

My First Little House Books Winter Days in the Big Woods

My First Little House Books Winter on the Farm

A Little House Chapter Book Laura #1

The Adventures of Laura & Jack

A Little House Chapter Book Laura #2

Pioneer Sisters

A Little House Chapter Book Laura #3

Animal Adventures

A Little House Chapter Book Laura #4

School Days

My First Little House Books

Independent Reading Activities Assessments

Connection to known genre structure: Day 1: Introduce Fiction Story Structure (familiar text structure to kids) Draw the story structure and explain the parts. Explain this is the guide or map the author uses when writing a fiction text. In particular, they think first about what lesson the author wants to teach through the text. climax Turn around (which character helped turn the problem around?) Lesson Learned (What character learned,

Problem (series of events that builds tensi

Resolution

what lesson author wanted readers to learn) Set up or lead

• Characters • Setting • Plot • Point of View • Theme

Teacher reads the text: Hunter’s Best Friend at School. Think aloud with the students: During the text, have students tell where the set-up is over (discuss characters, setting, basic plot, mood, point of view, theme (lesson) of text. Then figure out where the action starts, move finger along path to follow events to teach the students the structure of a fiction text. Talk about what lesson the author wanted the readers to learn. The teacher begins teaching text structure with familiar text (in this case fantasy). Discuss similarities and differences between realistic fiction and fantasy. What makes this text a fantasy? Community Writing Write on the chart paper the characters, plot, setting, point of view etc. Write the name of character that turned the story around, then write the solution, and the lessons the characters learned. Last have them come up with the Lesson the author wanted us to learn from the text (author’s purpose). Post this in the room so you can refer back to it. Reader’s Notebook Teacher introduces the reader’s notebook to the students. Shows them the book and all of the sections. Allows students time to explore the text and turn open all tabs. Talk about each section. Mini-Lesson Teach students how to fill out the genre study of a fantasy. You write what they come up with on chart paper. Have students fill out their text as they go along. Independent Writing Turn to the section where they write about their reading. Explain this is an area where they write to you about their reading. Starting next week, you will write them back once a week. They need to write in their book every single day. Explain today they are going to write in response to your reading. Have the students write a response to the Hunter and Stripe text. What lesson or story in your own life did this book remind you of? Tell them they (or you) will share their writing at the end of the session. Collect books and share out the writing. Independent Reading Have students write and then begin independent reading when done with their writing.

If time permits, encourage students to draw their own story structure of the book they are reading as a second piece of writing. Find one or two to share the next day. Each time you share, it becomes a spring board for others to try. Sharing Collect books and share out some of the written responses. Then have a discussion and have kids share with their neighbors about the book they are reading independently.