Artifact #17: Affective Curriculum Unit

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Title of item Affective Curriculum Unit (Bibliotherapy Approach)

Owner/Creator Myself (Katelyn Thompson)

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to difficult = 5)
Available on OneNote. (See “snip” image on
portfolio page.)
The OneNote section “Affective Support” includes a
tab for Bibliotherapy, which includes the Affective
Curriculum Unit I created for my Applied Project.
This is a 4 week unit that can be implemented
during small group reading instruction for
kindergarten and is easily adjusted for first and
second grades. Each week students can learn
about social-emotional topics integrated into
reading content through a bibliotherapy strategy.
Students can work through different social-
emotional needs like perfectionism, self-managing
emotions, cooperation, and social responsibility.
This unit serves both as a resource and a model for
K-2 teachers in the area of how to incorporate
affective learning into regular instruction,
particularly for a small group of high ability students.
It informs my practicum by being a component of
the OneNote resources I developed to share with
teachers.
Level 5
This Affective Curriculum Unit took several weeks to
create, including time spent researching, pulling
resources together for the unit, writing the unit,
gathering the texts for the unit. The unit itself did not
cost any money to make, though I did implement
the unit in my classroom to assure its effectiveness,
and for this I purchased the children’s books
needed.