Information Literacy Unit –Responding to Literature

UbD Stage 1 Template

Title of Responding to Grade Third

Unit Literature Level
Curriculu Language Arts Time
2 weeks
m Area Frame
Stage 1 – Identify Desired Results
Content Standards:
. ELA3W2 The student writes in a variety of genres, including narrative, informational,
persuasive, and response to literature. The student produces a narrative that:
b. Sustains a focus.
c. Includes the appropriate purpose, expectations, and length for the audience and genre.
d. Uses sensory details and other literary language to communicate setting, characters, and plot.
e. Uses appropriate organizational structures to ensure coherence (well developed beginning,
middle, and end, and sequence of events) and strategies (transition words/phrases, time cue words,
and sequence of events).
g. Provides a sense of closure.
h. May include pre-writing.
i. May include a revised and edited draft.
j. May be published.

Understandings
Students will understand that:
1. Using a graphic organizer is a good way to help capture the most important
parts of a story.
2. Writing is a process that is revisited (pre-writing, drafting, revising, and
editing).
3. Book reviews have many purposes.
4. Writing has a beginning, middle, and end.
5. Book reviews tell enough about a story to make someone else interested in
reading that story.
6. Writing is interesting, and makes us see, hear, and feel.

Essential Questions
Overarching Questions: Topical Questions:
1. How do good readers use reading 1. How can you use a graphic
strategies to make meaning from a organizer to track the plot of the
Information Literacy Unit –Responding to Literature

text? story?
2. How do good writers hook a 2. How can you write a statement
reader? that makes someone want to read
3. How can a person locate the best your chosen book?
literature? 3. What resources do you use to find
4. How is writing a process? books to read for pleasure?
4. What steps will you take to write a
good book review?
5. What elements are necessary for a
book review to be effective?

Knowledge and Skills

Knowledge Skills
Students will know… Students will be able to:
1. Drafting 1. Write a book review.
2. Revising for clarity 2. Make text to self connections.
3. Editing for grammar 3. Engage their reader.
4. Characteristics of a good book
review
5. Purposes of book reviews
6. Summarizing
7.