Unit 12: Problem Solving Belonging in Books™ Bundle

Belonging in Books Unit 12 Bundle: Problem Solving

If you’re looking for a low-prep, high-impact way to bring purposeful comprehension instruction into your PreK–2 classroom or homeschool, this resource is for you! Part of the Belonging in Books curriculum, this unit supports deep thinking, joyful reading, and inclusive discussion using 8 powerful anchor texts:

Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type — Doreen Cronin
Jabari Tries — Gaia Cornwall
Stick Man — Julia Donaldson
Stuck — Oliver Jeffers
The Dot — Peter H. Reynolds
The Koala Who Could — Rachel Bright
Too Many Carrots — Katy Hudson
What Do You Do With a Problem? — Kobi Yamada

This bundle of books focuses on the theme of problem solving, helping students explore how challenges can become opportunities for growth through perseverance, creativity, courage, and flexible thinking. Throughout this unit, students will focus on identifying problems and solutions, sequencing events, making predictions, drawing inferences, analyzing character feelings and motivations, identifying cause-and-effect relationships, visualizing, making meaningful connections, and discovering the central message or theme of a story. As students engage with both fiction and thoughtfully paired connected texts, they will strengthen essential comprehension skills while learning that mistakes are part of learning, challenges can be overcome in many different ways, and asking for help, working together, and trying again are valuable strategies for solving problems. By exploring stories about resilience, confidence, cooperation, determination, and bravery, students will build social-emotional awareness while developing the mindset that every problem holds the potential for growth, learning, and new possibilities.

Each Belonging in Books unit is built around a high-quality read-aloud and carefully designed to:
✔️ Teach comprehension through rich, age-appropriate conversations
✔️ Build vocabulary and language skills in context
✔️ Explore story elements and text structures
✔️ Practice key comprehension strategies
✔️ Support synthesis using a paired companion text
✔️ Center student voices and diverse perspectives

What’s Included:
5-day lesson arc (20–30 minutes/day):

• Day 1: Connect & First Read
• Day 2: Vocabulary Exploration
• Day 3: Story Elements or Text Structure
• Day 4: Comprehension Skill
• Day 5: Paired Text & Synthesis Discussion

+Semi-Scripted daily lesson plans
+Thoughtful discussion questions
+Printable graphic organizers
+Visual Vocabulary and child-friendly definitions
+No Prep student practice sheets
+Anchor chart templates
+CCSS Alignment
+Student “I Can” statements
+Lesson plans for a culminating project or hands-on response
+Companion text suggestion and extension ideas

Each book in Belonging in Books can be a stand alone week of learning, or you can dive into an entire thematic unit of quality mentor texts that connect through themes, character experiences, comprehension strategies, and text structures.

Want the entire curriculum? Grab the Complete Curriculum Bundle!