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Grade 5 Counselor Units

Unit Plan 3 (Grade 5 Counselor): Organization and Ready-to-Learn Habits

Help Grade 5 students build organization, responsibility, and ready-to-learn habits with planners, checklists, routines, and middle school prep.

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Grade 5 Counselor Units

Unit Plan 2 (Grade 5 Counselor): Emotions, Stressors, and Body Clues

Help Grade 5 students identify emotions, stressors, and body clues while building self-awareness, stress awareness, and healthy help-seeking skills.

Grade 5 Counselor Units

Unit Plan 1 (Grade 5 Counselor): Meet the School Counselor

Introduce Grade 5 students to the school counselor’s role, trusted adults, help-seeking skills, organization, responsibility, and middle school readiness.

The Admin Angle

The Admin Angle: The District Attendance Strategy That Starts Before Students Miss Too Much School

Build a district attendance playbook with early warning dashboards, family communication, response teams, and supports to prevent chronic absenteeism.

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Family Hack Nights: Students Teaching Parents Classroom Strategies

Host Family Hack Nights where students teach parents simple classroom strategies, build confidence, and send families home with practical learning tools.

Pre-Kindergarten Library Units

Unit Plan 36 (PreK Library): Celebration of Books, Curiosity, and Library Growth

Celebrate PreK library growth with favorite books, curiosity, creative story responses, respectful sharing, and joyful reflection.

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Pre-Kindergarten Library Units

Unit Plan 35 (PreK Library): My Favorite Kind of Library Learning

PreK library unit where children reflect on favorite books, tools, centers, and creative activities while sharing their voice as library learners.

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Pre-Kindergarten Library Units

Unit Plan 34 (PreK Library): Sharing Stories and Ideas with Others

PreK library unit where children share story responses, drawings, puppets, and book ideas while practicing listening, audience skills, and confidence.

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Pre-Kindergarten Library Units

Unit Plan 33 (PreK Library): Library Helpers and Leaders

PreK library helper unit where children practice leadership, sorting, cleanup, routines, sharing materials, and responsible participation.

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Pre-Kindergarten Library Units

Unit Plan 32 (PreK Library): Looking Back at What We Learned

PreK library review unit where children revisit favorite books, topics, routines, sorting tasks, and sharing skills while celebrating growth.

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Pre-Kindergarten Library Units

Unit Plan 31 (PreK Library): Exploring Books, Media, and Tools

PreK library unit where children explore books, audio stories, puppets, media, and creative tools while practicing safe, responsible use.

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Pre-Kindergarten Library Units

Unit Plan 30 (PreK Library): Using the Library with Confidence

PreK library unit helping children build confidence with routines, book care, centers, cleanup, transitions, and safe material use.

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Pre-Kindergarten Library Units

Unit Plan 29 (PreK Library): Everyone Has Favorite Books

PreK library unit helping children build reader identity, choose favorite books, try new baskets, and respect different reading interests.

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Unit Plan 28 (PreK Library): Stories We Can Learn From

PreK library unit helping children explore story meaning, character feelings, choices, kindness, and creative responses through read-alouds.

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Pre-Kindergarten Library Units

Unit Plan 27 (PreK Library): Choosing and Caring for Library Favorites

PreK library unit helping children choose favorite books, care for materials, follow routines, and use shared library spaces responsibly.

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Pre-Kindergarten Library Units

Unit Plan 26 (PreK Library): Puppet Stories and Retelling Play

PreK library unit helping children retell familiar stories with puppets, props, felt-board pieces, story play, sharing, and creative response.

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Pre-Kindergarten Library Units

Unit Plan 25 (PreK Library): Sharing Ideas in a Group

PreK library unit helping children share ideas, listen respectfully, take turns, and join group story responses, picture talks, and discussions.

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Pre-Kindergarten Library Units

Unit Plan 24 (PreK Library): Books About the World Around Us

PreK library unit helping children explore real-world topics through books, pictures, objects, centers, and guided inquiry.

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Pre-Kindergarten Library Units

Unit Plan 23 (PreK Library): What Do You Notice? What Do You Think?

PreK library unit helping children build visual thinking, oral response, picture clues, observation, and group discussion skills through books and images.

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Pre-Kindergarten Library Units

Unit Plan 22 (PreK Library): Creative Story Response Through Art

PreK library unit helping children respond to stories through drawing, collage, building, making, and simple art-based reflection.

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Pre-Kindergarten Library Units

Unit Plan 21 (PreK Library): Sorting and Organizing Books

Focus: Help PreK children begin sorting and organizing books, picture cards, baskets, and library materials in simple, age-appropriate ways. Children practice noticing features such as topic, type, color, picture clues, or shared ideas while working with partners or small groups and handling books carefully. Grade Level: PreK Subject Area:

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Pre-Kindergarten Library Units

Unit Plan 20 (PreK Library): Listening Centers and Audio Stories

PreK library unit teaching safe listening center routines, audio story participation, headphone care, and simple story responses through drawing, talking, or movement.

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Pre-Kindergarten Library Units

Unit Plan 19 (PreK Library): Trying New Books

PreK library unit helping children try new books, topics, and formats with curiosity while responding through talk, drawing, building, and play.

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Pre-Kindergarten Library Units

Unit Plan 18 (PreK Library): Favorite Stories and Kind Library Habits

PreK library unit celebrating favorite stories and centers while building kindness, turn-taking, listening, sharing, cleanup, and library routines.

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Pre-Kindergarten Library Units

Unit Plan 17 (PreK Library): Exploring Library Topics

PreK library topic exploration unit where children use books, pictures, objects, sorting, and conversation to build curiosity and early inquiry skills.