Desired Results
BVSD Standard(s)/Essential Learnings
Standard 1: Students read and understand a variety of materials.
  • Uses meaning sources of information to predict text and check to confirm predictions.
  • Communicates understandings gained from reading
Standard 2: Students listen, observe, speak, and write for a variety of purposes and audiences.
  • Rereads and revises to ensure writing makes sense
Standard 3: Students use grammatical and mechanical conventions of language in speaking and
writing
  • Speaks and writes using grammatically accurate language patterns
Standard 6: Students read, understand, and interpret literature as a record and expression of
human experience.
  • Makes text-to-text connections with characters, events, and other information in literature

Unit Enduring Understandings
Readers employ strategies to help them understand text.
There are established parameters used to communicate messages orally and in writing.
Readers and writers use phonetic principles to read and spell.
The impact of a text on a reader is influenced by the reader’s experiences. / Unit Essential Questions
What do good readers do to enjoy and learn from
reading?
How are personal messages shared through speaking,listening, writing, and reading?
How are punctuation marks, grammar, and
conventional spelling like highway signs and traffic
signals?
How can background knowledge of topics and
themes support readers and/or hinder readers?
Students will know……
How to add descriptive words into simple sentences
When to use upper case letters:
• the first word of a sentence
• for proper nouns and the word
How to infer about acharacters’ intentions or feelings / Students will be able to……
Retell major events of a known story in correct sequence with a beginning, middle, and end
Derive meaning of unfamiliar words from context
Explain, inquire, and compare
Make connections between familiar texts and discuss similarities and differences
Assessment Evidence
Performance/Transfer Tasks
Reader’s Theater
Teacher observation
Illustrate and write a short Fairy Tale
Predict events of fairy tales / Other Evidence
Identify elements of a fairy tale
Double entry diaries
Sequence of events
Rubric
Teacher created rubric / Student Self-Assessment and Reflection
Have student compare and contrast components of fairy tales to find fairy tale structure


Learning Plans
Learning Activities ( 2 weeks)
  1. Read aloud examples of fairy tales
  2. Create web to illustrate components of a fairy tale
  3. Read aloud a fairy tale and have student fill in web
  4. Create their own fairy tale with a partner
  5. Act out fairy tales

Materials
Various fairy tale books
Teacher created webs
Blank web sheets / Accommodations
Provide a variety of text levels of fairy tales
Write or illustrate
Realia
Revisiting components of fairy tales
Word walls
Partner work
Extended time
Technology Integration
Use computers to create artwork for fairy tales
Teacher will video tape students acting out their fairy tales
Watch a fairy tale on video