Plot Read Aloud Unit | Use With Book Queen of the Falls | 5th-6th Grade

This literary unit focuses on teaching plot through the use of the picture book Queen of the Falls by Chris Van Allsburg.  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.

The student pages are designed to be used in interactive notebooks, but can also be used as printables.

Unit Includes:

• 5 days of daily lesson plans focusing on point of view
• Interactive notebook pieces
• Written response
• Plot assessment
• Printable PDF and digital Google Slides

STANDARDS:

FIFTH GRADE

• 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.

SIXTH GRADE

• 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.6.5
  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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