Please read before starting
Sample
Title Page Format:
1. The title of your thematic unit
2. 30-50 words description of your project
3. Grade level
4. Names of Team members.
5. Course title and number
6. Date of submission
Sample:
Title: Fishing for the Knowledge
Description: Through the ?Memoirs of a Goldfish? students explore a beautiful life
cycle and habitats of fish, understanding the components of a story and learn to
write an informative essay.
Grade Level: Fourth Grade
Authors and Presenters: Jane Doe, John Doe, Jane J. Doe
ED 528 Language and Communicative Art
March 24, 2022
This is what required from the unit
Steps in Developing a Thematic Unit
Read the textbook on thematic units for definition on p. 31 and p. 36; for planning
a thematic unit on p. 374-375; and for examples and more information on p. 250-
254, p. 353-357, p. 371, p. 373-379. Tompkins, G. E. (2016). Language Arts:
Patterns of Practice. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/ Merrill Prentice Hall.
Thematic Units integrate language arts with social studies, science, and other
curricular areas (Lindquist & Selwyn, 2000). Students use all of the Language Arts
as they investigate, solve problems, and learn during a unit (Rief, 1999). They also
use language arts to demonstrate their new learning at the end of the unit. These
Language Arts activities are integrated with content area study during thematic
units.
Brainstorming:
Design Questions: Making it meaningful to your students not to you.
1. What is meaningful for your students to learn and explore from this area?
2. What will you do to help the students?
3. What resources will you use?
4. What will students do?
Within this unit, to prepare for some assignments
5. What will students learn from this experience?
6. How will you help them assess what they?ve learned?
Steps:
1. A title reflecting the theme or topic of the unit and names of the presenters
2. Blue print page: Brainstorm on your major plan for this unit? It could be
handwriting.
3. Identify Standards: Identify standards they will address and plan minilessons
to teach strategies, concepts, and procedures.
4. Choose a core book for the theme.
5. Text Set: Collect a text set of books and other types of reading materials to
use in the unit: stories, poems, informational books, trade books, magazines,
newspaper articles, and reference books. Display these books and sources
for the presentation.
6. Listening Center: Set up a listening center and collect recordings of various
books in the text set.
7. Textbooks: Coordinate content-area textbook reading with other activities in
the unit.
8. Technology resources: locate internet and other technology resources
(videotapes, CD-ROMs, DVDs, charts, time lines, maps, models, posters,
and other displays) and plan ways to integrate them into the unit.
9. Identify Academic Vocabulary: Teachers preview books in the text set and
identify potential words for the word wall and activities to teach these words.
10.Learning Logs: Plan how students will use learning logs as a tool for
learning: take notes, write questions, make observations, clarify their
thinking, and write reactions to what they are learning during the thematic
units.
11.Talk and Visually Representing Activities: Plan ways to involve students in
talk activities, such as instructional conversations and oral presentations, and
in visually representing activities. The following are possible activities:
a. Give oral report
b. Interview someone with special expertise related to the unit
c. Participate in a debate related to the unit
d. Create charts and diagrams to display information
e. Participate in a readers theatre presentation of a story or poem
12.Projects: Brainstorm possible projects students can create to apply their
learning, but usually allow students some choice in which projects they
develop: a. create a poster to illustrate a big idea. b. write a story related to
the unit. c. write a poem, song, or rap related to the unit. d. write a ?All
About…? book or a report about one of the big ideas.
13.Assessment: Plan ways to monitor and assess students? learning with
assignment checklists, rubrics, and other assessment tools.
14.Reference page: List your cited source in this unit.
15.Rich artifacts
Thematic Unit group projects. Participate as part of a group in a thematic unit. In the unit, you integrate language arts activities with content area study such as social studies, science, and other curricular areas. You also need to include in the unit a two-week simulated mini-lesson. The composition of the lesson should incorporate all six facets of an effective language arts program integrated into a structured lesson. (No worksheets).
