Bring “Peace Dancer” by Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd into your classroom with this meaningful, ready-to-teach 5-day read-aloud unit.

Through interactive read-alouds, layered texts, discussion, and purposeful writing, students explore respect, responsibility, community, stewardship, relationships with the natural world, and the choices we make to care for one another and our environment.

What’s Included

• 5 interactive read-aloud lessons
• Week-at-a-Glance overview
• Learning goals and success criteria
• Before-, during-, and after-reading discussion prompts
• Teacher think-alouds
• Carefully selected layered texts
• Collaborative anchor chart activities
• Oral language extensions
• Differentiated Quick Writes for Grades 1–3
• Follow-up discussion and response activities
• Connections to Gholdy Muhammad’s 5 Pursuits
• Ontario Language Curriculum (2023) connections
• Ready-to-print materials

Students Will Explore

• Respect and responsibility
• Caring for the natural world
• Community and belonging
• Stewardship and interdependence
• Characters’ choices and perspectives
• Relationships between people, community, and nature
• Indigenous traditional teaching stories
• How stories can teach us to care for ourselves, others, and the world around us

Perfect For

• Interactive read-alouds
• Reading comprehension
• Oral language and discussion
• Writing
• Indigenous education
• Environmental learning
• Whole-class literacy
• Exploring respect and responsibility
• Connecting literature to the natural world
• Grades 1–3

This low-prep unit makes it easy to create meaningful literacy experiences while helping students build knowledge, engage in rich conversation, and make connections between literature and the world around them.