Love Is | 5-Day Read-Aloud Unit | Grades 1–3

Bring “Love Is” by Sarah C. Campbell into your classroom with this meaningful, ready-to-teach 5-day read-aloud unit.

Through interactive read-alouds, layered texts, rich discussion, and purposeful writing, students explore love, kindness, empathy, belonging, relationships, and the many ways we show care for ourselves and others.

What’s Included

• 5 complete interactive read-aloud lessons
• Carefully selected layered texts
• Learning goals and success criteria
• Essential question
• Before-, during-, and after-reading discussion prompts
• Community Circle questions
• Collaborative anchor chart activities
• Differentiated Quick Writes for Grades 1–3
• Follow-up activities and reflection opportunities
• Student checklists
• Teacher and student rubrics
• Connections to Gholdy Muhammad’s 5 Pursuits
• Ready-to-print blackline masters
• Ontario Language Curriculum (2023) connections

Students Will Explore

• What love and kindness can look and feel like
• How people show care for one another
• The importance of empathy and understanding
• Relationships, belonging, and community
• How small acts of kindness can make a difference
• Different ways people experience and express love
• How our actions can help others feel valued and included

Perfect For

• Interactive read-alouds
• Whole-class literacy
• Reading comprehension
• Oral language and discussion
• Writing
• Social-emotional learning
• Building classroom community
• Exploring kindness, empathy, and belonging
• Beginning-of-year community building
• Valentine’s Day
• Grades 1–3

This low-prep unit helps students build literacy skills while creating meaningful opportunities to talk, reflect, listen to different perspectives, and make connections to their own lives and communities.