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Fantasy Book For 5Th Graders

A 234-slide fifth-grade fantasy book-club unit spans nineteen sessions on themes, symbols, world building, character choices, and genre interpretation.
Grades
Grade 5, Elementary
File type
Microsoft PowerPoint
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Digital activity

Updated Sep 09, 2022

Subject
ELA, Reading
Topic
Lucy Calkins, fantasy book clubs
Resource types
Lesson Plans, Teacher Tools
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Digital activity

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This is Lucy Calkins Reading for 5th Grade.

This download is for Unit 4: Fantasy Book Clubs.

You will have everything you need to take students through all 19 sessions included in Unit 4.

Included for each session:

  • - Connection

  • - Teaching point

  • - Teaching

  • - Active engagement

  • - Share

  • - Mid-workshop

  • - Homework

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Interpret themes and symbols in fantasy texts

  • Analyze character choices within imagined worlds

  • Support book-club ideas with reading evidence

Teaching tips

  • Verify all source-linked excerpts against authorized materials.

  • Use shared evidence norms during fantasy book-club discussion.

Skills covered

  • Fantasy interpretation — genre structures support meaning.

  • Themes and symbols — recurring elements are analyzed.

  • Book-club discourse — readers build interpretations together.

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