Theme Unit Character Traits Unit and Genre Unit Bundle for Middle Grades

This resource includes three reading unit to teach character traits, theme, and reading genres to upper elementary students. These reading unit include, reading response examples, mini lessons, interactive notebooks pages, genre reading posters, rubrics, and assessments.

This bundle includes the following units for 20% savings:

• Theme Unit for Upper Elementary and Middle School.
• Genre Unit for Upper Elementary and Middle School.
• Character Traits Unit for Upper Elementary and Middle School.
• Genre Bulletin Board Display

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These unit includes everything you need to dig deeper into theme, character traits, and genres in upper grades.

As an upper grade teacher, I often find that I assume my students have an understanding of literary information like genres, themes, and character traits. My 5th-8th graders tend to have a basic and simple understanding of things like genre, theme, and character traits, but I want them to really be able to analyze and dig deep into these concepts and that is the reason for these types of units.

Each unit includes the following

• Mini-lessons
• Interactive notebook pages with examples
• Common-core standard alignment
• Teacher data collections sheets
• Rubrics
• Pre- assessments and post-assessments with all answer keys
• Genre Chart papers and posters to hang in your classroom

In each lesson you will find the following format:

• Title
• Objectives
• Common Core Standards for 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades
• Materials Needed
• Mini-Lesson
• Reader’s Workshop
• Closing

There are 14 mini-lessons in the Genre unit:

1. Pre-Assessment
2. Using Prior Knowledge to Understand Genres
3. The Two Main Genres
4. Informational/Non-Fiction Genre
5. Fiction Genre
6. Fiction and Non-Fiction Sub-Genre
7. Why are Genres Important
8. Reading Response One
9. Format vs. Genre
10. Using Familiar Books to Understand Genres
11. Digging Deeper into Genres
12. Reading Response Two
13. Genre Culminating Activity
14. Genre Post Assessment

There are 10 mini-lessons in the Theme unit:

1. Pre-Assessment
2. Using Prior Knowledge to Understand Theme
3. What Is Theme?
4. Why Is Theme Important?
5. Reading Response One
6. Using Familiar Books To Understand Theme
7. Digging Deeper
8. Reading Response Two
9. Theme Cumulating Activity
10. Post-Assessment.

There are 10 mini-lessons in the Character Traits unit:

1. Pre-Assessment
2. Using Prior Knowledge to Understand Character Traits
3. What are Character Traits?
4. How do we use textual evidence to determine character traits?
5. Reading Response One
6. Why is analyzing character traits important?
7. Digging deeper into character traits.
8. Reading Response Two
9. Character Traits culminating activity.
10. Character traits post-assessment.