Balanced Literacy e-Unit

Planning Commentary Template

Your Name: Kathleen McKeown

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I have created an Eunit to support emergent reading in my

classroom.

The overall theme of this unit is cooking and food. Lessons can be
used anywhere from reading and writing skills, math problems with
measurements, science lessons about reactions and social studies
1. Central Focus lessons about food in different cultures.

According to NJ standards students will be able to…

NJSLSA.R10. Read and comprehend complex literary and

informational texts independently and proficiently with scaffolding as
needed.

Shared reading plan- through this lesson plan my students will gain
alphabet knowledge, phonemic awareness, and analogizing words
3. Rationale
through various hands on activities.
Justify Your Support for
Guided reading- through this lesson plan my students will prepare for
Student Learning
reading, read independently, reflect on the information of the story,
and then take the information and expand their knowledge.

2. Knowledge of Students This section is filled with books on various reading levels related to my
to Inform Instruction balanced literacy unit. These books also relate to different cultures. I
may have ELLs in my class which is why I added Count on Pablo.
(uses Spanish and English words through out the text.)
 I have attached a link to my emergent literacy eBook.

The belief that children have the knowledge of reading and writing
skills before they can actually read and write. Young children as early
4. Academic Language as age one and 2 have the ability to start the literacy process.

My book I have created supports emergent literacy because it

includes sight words and rhyming words. It also invites opportunity for
phonological and phonemical awareness to be taught.

Students can create their own book using a book creator platform.
5. Assessment Plan
This will help my asses their comprehension on the subject matter.