Literacy Units
The Repository includes 10 literacy units created for grades 3, 4, and 5. The units include various downloadable ready to use materials such as literacy planning grids, worksheets, flashcards, and handouts. In addition, each unit includes materials illustrating the planning process and its implementation, such as the teachers’ and students’ commentaries, videotaped short lesson segments demonstrating various phases of literacy teaching, and some examples of student work.
| Grade | Topic | Text type | Cross Curricular links | |
| Unit 1 | 3 | Healthy Recipes | procedural | math, social studies |
| Unit 2 | 3 | Dancing Snake | procedural | science, art |
| Unit 3 | 3 | History of Dogs | informative | history, science, geography |
| Unit 4 | 4 | Cool Survival Skills | informative | science, geography, PE, ICT |
| Unit 5 | 4 | Writing Recipes | procedural | health, science, math |
| Unit 6 | 4 | Biography of Bear Grylls | biography, recount | ICT, social science, art |
| Unit 7 | 5 | Why Do Zombies Love Brains? | report | science, math, art |
| Unit 8 | 5 | Writing letters | persuasive | social studies, cultural studies |
| Unit 9 | 5 | You Wouldn’t Want to Sail with Christopher Columbus | factual, descriptive | history, social studies |
| Unit 10 | 5 | San Francisco Story | narrative | music, geography, history, science |
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