Untold Stories
Explore diverse perspectives!
Empower students by helping them connect with unique stories that promote representation and diversity. Untold Stories is a meaningful nonfiction series with texts that focus on diverse people and their captivating experiences. This product by Teacher Created Materials fills a need in modern curriculum, facilitates implementation with an abundance of teacher resources, and helps build both literacy and content-area skills.
Overview
Use fascinating but untold tales about real people and events to add relevancy and purpose to any literacy curriculum.
- Inspire students by reading and analyzing stories of diverse people and their captivating experiences.
- Meet state and national standards in literacy while building 21st century content-area skills.
- Engage students with text cards that offer culturally and linguistically responsive, grade-level text, vocabulary, time lines of important events, and character trait activities.
- Provide opportunities for students to collaborate and focus on active listening and speaking skills as they read, write about, and discuss the stories.
- Guide students with a detailed lesson plan that emphasizes key focus areas: vocabulary, reading comprehension, speaking and listening, writing, content knowledge, and social-emotional learning.
- Enhance learning with digital resources that support diversity and inclusion in today’s classrooms.
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Digital Resources
- All components of this product are available and included in digital formats.
- Reach students in various instructional settings with PDFs of lessons, student activity pages, text cards, primary source presentations, and graphic organizers for writing.
- Extend learning with a culminating activity template.
- Enhance student engagement with audio and read-along e-cards.
Management Guide
- Develop a rich, culturally and linguistically responsive curriculum with this comprehensive Management Guide.
- Builds teacher confidence with an overview of culturally and linguistically responsive teaching strategies.
- Includes five biography lessons that are action activities to use with the text cards and assessment rubrics.
- Provides an opportunity for students to engage deeply with the content through culminating problem-based learning activities.
- Meets state and national standards in literacy while building 21st century content-area skills.
Lesson Plans
- Empower students to investigate culturally and linguistically responsive texts about people, places, and events that have diverse backgrounds with well-developed lesson plans.
- 25 lessons that emphasize key focus areas: diversity, vocabulary, reading comprehension, speaking and listening, writing, content knowledge, and social-emotional learning.
Text Cards
- Give students opportunities to explore untold stories through engaging text cards.
- 25 culturally and linguistically responsive, grade-level text cards ideal for use in a variety of instructional settings, 6 copies each in print and digital formats.
- Explores at least one character trait in each character story.
Student Engagement
- Empowers students intellectually, socially, and emotionally while highlighting the not-so-familiar stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
- Cultivates independence in learning with the culminating problem-based learning activities.
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Untold Stories Sample Pages
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This sample includes the following:
- Lessons
- Activity pages
- Teacher's guide pages
- and more!
Untold Stories: Using Powerful Texts to Build Literacy Skills
Inspire students to read and analyze short texts that focus on ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
In this workshop, educators will:
- Explore how to use short texts to provide powerful teaching opportunities that support a variety of instructional needs, content areas, and reading levels.
- Discover ways to add relevancy and purpose to any literacy curriculum with fascinating stories about real people and real events throughout history.
- Learn how to support collaboration and focus on active listening and strong speaking skills as they read, write about, and discuss the untold stories.
- Discover strategies that empower students to explore and share their own untold stories.
Training Options
Workshop
On-Site Coaching
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