School Year: 2020-2021

Grade: 5th
Subject: ELA

Yearly Overview:
I. Realistic Fiction
II. Narrative Writing
III. Historical Fiction
IV. Nonfiction
V. Research Essay
VI. Poetry/Plays

Stage 1: Desired Results

Established Goals:
This section should include your standards. I use Common Core State Standards.
Understandings:
This section should include the bigger ideas
that you want your students to walk away with
from this unit. For example, when I’m
teaching my historical fiction unit, I want
students to walk away with skills in reading
fiction but I want them to walk away with a
deeper understanding about the topic that
relates to the book. For my specific unit, an
understanding about the book might be that,
“Everyone deserves basic human rights.” It’s a
deeper idea that is applicable to their daily
lives – it comes off the pages of the book and
off the standards that you are teaching.
Students will know Students will be able to
 Here, you should list some of the more
specific points that you will learn
through the understandings. If the
above statement was my
understanding, then this section might
include points such as: “Student will
know that governments can protect
people” or “Students will know that
people need certain rights to survive.”
Essential Questions:
An essential question should be a broader,
open ended question that should be the driving
force of the entire unit. You should use the unit
to focus your exploration during the unit, and
revisit it throughout the unit. An essential
question I use, for example, is “What are basic
human rights required by a just society?” There
are multiple answers to this question, an you
can answer it right away, but your unit should
also reveal ideas and research to your students
to answer this question as well. It is also great
to take this essential question, and develop
even more specific questions off of this idea.
 This is where you will list the skill set
you are covering in this unit. This
should refer back to standards.

Stage 2: Assessment Evidence

Performance Tasks Other Evidence
 This part includes the big picture final  Here you should list smaller, more
 assessment or any other large formative assessments or checks for
summative assessment. understanding.
Student Self-Assessment and Reflection
 This is a great part of UBD that requires you to review and reflect during this unit. You
can reflect on discussion questions related to the understandings and content or you can
review and reflect on strategies learned during the unit.

Stage 3: Learning Plan

Learning Activities
 Here you can record any other activities, graded or ungraded, that you want to include
in this unit.