Theme Read Aloud Unit | Theme Picture Book Lessons | Baseball Saved Us

This literary unit focuses on teaching theme through the use of the picture book Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki.  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
• Interactive notebook pieces
• Assessment
• Written response
• Sentence starters
• Scaffolded written response support
• Printable PDF and digital Google Slides

STANDARDS:

FOURTH GRADE

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.2
  Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.

FIFTH GRADE

• 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.

SIXTH GRADE

• 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.

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