Halloween Read-Aloud Unit | Use With Book The Spider & the Fly | 5th-6th Grade

This seasonal literary unit is perfect for the month October and Halloween. This resource focuses on reviewing literature standards and teaching theme/central idea through the use of the picture book The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howitt.  You will need a copy of this book for use throughout the unit. You may be able to find a read aloud of the book on YouTube.

Students will be creating a flip book to complete as you work through the unit. Each flip book is created with three pieces of paper printed front and back, staggered, and folded. Detailed instructions, including video tutorials, are provided to help with printing and assembling the flip books.

Unit Includes:

• Theme
• Vocabulary
• Assessment
• Written Response
• Color-by-Code Activity

STANDARDS:

FIFTH GRADE

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.1
  Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.2
  Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.3
  Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.4
  Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.5
  Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.7
  Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).

SIXTH GRADE

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.1
  Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.2
  Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3
  Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.4
  Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.5
  Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.

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