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Unit Overview

A set of five instructional units adaptable for grades K-8 that utilize arts-integration techniques and the latest research on how children learn to dramatically improve reading motivation, literacy skills, learning skills and knowledge.

UNIT 1: Upside Down Fairytales

Literacy Skill Focus: Point of View; Story Elements
Genre: Familiar Fairytales
Text: “True Story of the Three Little Pigs” by Jon Scieszka
Art Focus: Drama (Tableau)

UNIT 2: Graphic Story Adventures

Literacy Skill Focus: Visualization, Author’s Choice, Story Elements
Genre: Fantasy Adventure
Text: “My Father’s Dragon” by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Art Focus: Visual Art (Graphic Novels & Illustrated Panels)

UNIT 3: Everyday Heroes

Literacy Skill Focus: Determining Importance, Synthesizing
Genre: Biographical Narrative, Nonfiction
Text: “Roberto Clemente” by Jonah Winter
Art Focus: Visual Art (Collage)

UNIT 4: Planting a Community

Literacy Skill Focus: Inference, Text-To-Text Connections, Theme
Genre: Fiction
Text: “Seedfolks” by Paul Fleischman
Art Focus: Music (Composition)

UNIT 5: Words in Motion

Literacy Skill Focus: Prosody, Vocabulary, Word Meaning
Genre: Free Verse Poetry
Texts: Contemporary Poetry
Art Focus: Dance (Movement & Choreography)

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