RDG 351 Wk 2 Team – Children’s Literature Thematic Unit Outline

As a team, choose a K-3 grade level and thematic topic for this assignment.

Individually select a piece of children’s literature that would be appropriate for your chosen grade level and the team’s topic. Each team member must select a book from a different genre that relates to your chosen topic. For example, if you choose the topic of transportation, you could select an informational text on trains, a fictional book involving cars, a biography on Amelia Earhart, etc.

As a team, create an outline of a literature-based thematic unit using your selected books. This will not be a complete thematic unit; rather, it will just be an outline of ideas for the unit.

​​​​​​​Include the following components in your outline:

• Grade level and thematic topic
• At least 2 reading and 2 writing standards to be addressed in the unit
• Reference information for all children’s books used in the unit
• An anticipatory set (activity or introduction) to get students excited about the unit and the books they will be reading
• A 100- to 150-word paragraph describing a reading skill/strategy and a writing skill/strategy you could teach with each book and how you would teach them (one paragraph per book)
• A 100- to 150-word paragraph describing two connections to technology you can make within the unit
• A 100- to 150-word paragraph describing two assessments you would use to measure student learning during the unit (a description of the assessment, how to administer it, and the skills it would assess)

Note: Your outline does not have to be written in a traditional outline format. You can also use a graphic organizer or presentation medium, such as Prezi, to share your information.

Submit the team assignment.