Unit 4 Realistic Fiction
Reading Workshop: Big Ideas
Readers will understand plot based on events and character choices. Readers will also understand
setting including time; to construct an understanding of different time periods.
*Create a story mountain which includes character development, setting, and plot.
*Able to compare and contrast setting, plots, and themes.
*Develop sense of time throughout a story
*Grasp big idea and events from historical fiction.
Unit Standards
3.2.3.3. Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or
steps in technical procedures in a text using language that pertains to time, sequence, and
cause/effect.
3.1.6.6 Distinguish their own point of view from that of the character or those of the characters
3.1.9.9 Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author
about the same or similar characters(ex. Books from a series)
Reading Resources
I survived…by Lauren Tarshis
More Than Anything (Basal)
Leah’s Pony (Basal)
Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine
White Sox by Evelyn Coleman
Dear Willie Rudd by Libba Moore Gray
Assessment
Integration
Reading Unit __4 _: _____Realistic and Historical Fiction _____________
Unit Bends in the road
POSSIBLE Teaching Point/Teaching Focus
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Exploring Realistic Fiction
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Realistic Fiction: Story
Elements
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Realistic Fiction:
Strengthening
Comprehension strategies
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Exploring Historical Fiction
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Historical Fiction: Story
Elements
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Historical Fiction:
Strengthening
Comprehension Strategies
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Readers surround themselves with realistic fiction that
they can connect with.
Readers immerse themselves with books that create
conversation about character struggles that relate to
their real world struggles.
Readers use everything they know about characters to
develop a theory.
Readers remember that fiction follows the story
mountain of introducing characters, setting, problem
and solution.
Readers pay attention to the characters at the
beginning of a story and how and why they change
throughout the story.
Readers pay attention to specific events in the story
that spark change in a character.
Readers compare and contrast themes from similar
authors.
Readers compare and contrast plots written by the
same or similar authors.
Readers immerse themselves in historical fiction.
Readers sometimes read nonfiction books that build
background knowledge.
Readers read historical fiction for the excitement but
also to learn more about that time or place.
Readers pay close attention to when and where the
story takes place and constructs the sense of another
time. V1.1
Readers read a lot of information in a historical fiction
book and need to decide what to remember, so as you
read grasp the who, what, where, and why. V1.3
Readers hold onto time when it jumps back and forth.
V1.4
Readers compare and contrast settings written by the
same or similar authors.
Readers sometimes create a timeline for the plot and
historical events to show how they intertwine. V1.5
Readers try to understand the decisions characters
make by asking “Why?”. V1.6
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Writing about Reading
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Phonics and Fluency
(Continue throughout each
unit)
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Celebrate
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Readers question character choices and think if they
would agree or not.
Readers write events that shape the plot in order to
develop a theory.
Readers decode by looking at prefixes and suffixes and
also to find meaning.
Readers decode by recognizing Latin suffixes.
Readers decode by looking at multisyllable words.
Readers read fluently by recognizing grade appropriate
words.
Readers read with fluency by leading with their eyes.
Readers read with fluency by reading with accuracy.
Readers read with fluency by reading with an
appropriate rate.
Readers read with fluency by reading with expression.
Readers decode words by using the context and
rereading if they have to.
Readers celebrate by sharing the books they read.
Unit 4 Reading: Readers will understand plot based on
events and character choices. Readers will also understand
setting including time; to construct an understanding of
different time periods.
Standards
3
2
Meets standard
(Proficient)
Approaches standard
(Basic)
Date:
1
Does not meet
standard
(Below Basic)
3.2.3.3. Describe series of
historical events that pertains
to time, sequence, and
cause/effect.
Describe series of
events that
pertains to time,
sequence, and
cause/effect.
Missing one part
No connection
between
historical events.
3.1.6.6 Distinguish own point
of view from that of the
character
Distinguish their
own point of view
from that of the
character
Can state point of
view
No point of view
3.1.9.9 Compare and contrast
the themes, settings, and
plots
Compare and
contrast the
themes, settings,
and plots
Compare and
contrast events and
characters.
Cannot compare
and contrast