First Chapter Friday Unit, Grades 5-8: 5 Lessons for Any Book

A complete First Chapter Friday unit for grades 5-8, five lessons that work with the first chapter of any book you own. Teach students to listen, respond, sketch, look at how a story opens, and rate what they hear, and keep the routine going all year with a teacher toolkit.

What's inside

• 62 slides across 5 PowerPoint decks, with speaker notes on every slide
• 5 lesson plans, 2 pages each, each with a 30-minute short version
• Teacher Toolkit, 4 pages: the 10-minute Friday script, year plan, guide to picking a first chapter, and a teacher log of chapters read
• 5 made-up sample first chapters, 1 page each, written for the lessons
• Class Chart, 1 page
• 5 rubrics with look-for keys, 1 page each, each with one scored model
• 5 Print All PDFs (43 pages in total)

Answer key included

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