This lesson provides students with opportunities to read closely and have deeper …
This lesson provides students with opportunities to read closely and have deeper thinking with text. Students will read Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parrish. They will discuss with others text-dependent questions to better understand the character. With further readings they will be able to Amelia Bedelia's chacter traits and the reactions Mr. and Mrs. Roger have to the same events. They will generate a trading card for Amelia Bedelia at the conclusion of the lesson.
These lessons compare different versions of the fairy tale, Little Red Riding …
These lessons compare different versions of the fairy tale, Little Red Riding Hood, giving students an opportunity to talk about the similiarities and differences among the different stories. Students are then introduced to non-fiction text about wolves to determine different perscpectives of the wolf as a villian in the stories.
In order to fully comprehend reading materials, students need to understand the …
In order to fully comprehend reading materials, students need to understand the cause-and-effect relationships that appear in a variety of fiction and nonfiction texts. In this lesson, students learn cause-and-effect relationships through the sharing of a variety of Laura Joffe Numeroff picture books in a Reader's Workshop format. Using online tools or a printed template, students create an original comic strip via the writing prompt, "If you take a (third) grader to." Students use various kinds of art to illustrate their strip and publish and present their completed piece to peers in a read-aloud format.
Do worms live underground? Are they good diggers? Can they really read …
Do worms live underground? Are they good diggers? Can they really read and write? As students read Doreen Cronin's Diary of a Worm in this lesson, they learn to separate the facts from the fictional details. Students begin the lesson by brainstorming what they know about worms. They then begin examining the book in layers. Four read-aloud sessions engage students by focusing attention on different features of the text in each session. In a whole-group setting, students explore the illustrations, fictional details, nonfiction details, and captions and speech bubbles. In this way, students are given concrete strategies that they can use to help differentiate narrative and informational elements in other books they read.
With this resource, students will identify elements of setting development within multiple …
With this resource, students will identify elements of setting development within multiple texts as well as recognize picture books as model texts that exemplify multiple literary elements. The lesson has a writing component where students apply the elements of setting development to revisions of their own writing.
A multi-age primary classroom teacher uses formative assessment as a barometer of …
A multi-age primary classroom teacher uses formative assessment as a barometer of student learning. She records anecdotal notes about her students' reading progress within an assessment notebook and references the notes for future instruction.
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