This unit of study involves high ability intermediate-grade students interacting with literature while enhancing reading comprehension and textual analysis skills. Students read literature and engage in shared inquiry to develop an awareness about the nature and importance of change, particularly as it affects people in various circumstances, times, and cultures. The literature selections serve as a basis for discussion, analysis, and interpretation. Students engage in writing activities not only by responding to the literature but also by using persuasive writing to express opinions on issues of significance that arise from the literature. Literature selections are drawn from multicultural samples of folk tales, stories, poetry, and novels. The unit is designed to improve development of critical reasoning related to comprehension of the main idea, understanding the concept of change, and supporting answers with valid reasons. This guide contains goals and outcomes, a list of student readings, an assessment model, an analysis of the concept of change, teaching models, 20 lesson plans, assessment forms, a bibliography of 81 works taught in the unit and resource materials used in the unit's development, an annotated bibliography of 16 items on the concept of change, and a list of 31 computer software resources. (JDD)