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The Backpack Travel Journals Unit PlanThe Backpack Travel Journals Unit Plan
Publisher
Mary Pope Osborne, Classroom Adventures Program
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Grade
2nd - 5th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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For Teacher Use
Duration
28 days
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Collaborative Learning
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Year
2012
Unit Plan

The Backpack Travel Journals

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Strap on those backpacks, it's time to travel through history with this literature unit based on the first four books of The Magic Tree House series. While reading through these fun stories, children create story maps, record interesting facts, and learn how to summarize text as they produce a collection of work that they can proudly display at the end of the unit.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

the magic tree house series, the knight at dawn, pirates past noon, children's literature, historical fiction, reading comprehension, story maps, plot, summarizing, sequence of events, main ideas, supporting details, acrostic poems

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Use this unit to introduce young readers to the historical fiction genre of literature
  • If possible, align this literature unit with related topics in social studies and/or science
  • Perform this unit with any cluster of Magic Tree House books

Classroom Considerations

  • This literature unit requires class sets of the first four books from the Magic Tree House series and their accompanying Fact Tracker texts

Pros

  • Pictures of student work are provided that demonstrate how each worksheet and activity is to be completed
  • Includes procedures for performing the book, studying as a whole class, or in smaller reading groups
  • Provides a clear set of directions for each reading comprehension activity

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.2.1 RL.2.2 RL.2.3 RL.3.1 RL.3.2 RL.3.3 RL.4.1 RL.4.2 RL.4.3 RL.4.9 RL.5.1 RL.5.2 RL.5.3 RL.5.9 RI.2.1 RI.3.1 RI.4.1 RI.5.1 W.2.7 W.3.4 W.3.7 W.4.4 W.4.7 W.5.4 W.5.7 SL.2.1.a SL.2.2 SL.3.1.a SL.3.2 SL.4.1.a SL.4.2 SL.5.1.a SL.5.2

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