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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.
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.