LESSON EIGHT: Picky Eater-Part 2

                             

LESSON DESCRIPTION

Students focus on identifying important information from text. Two graphic organizers are introduced.

 

GRADE-LEVEL EXPECTATIONS

W3B       Identify important information in text.

 

LESSON MATERIALS

§         Source of Literature

o           Picky Mrs. Pickle or similar text

 

§         Supplies 

o           Story Map Practice Sheet-student copies and overhead transparency

o        Overhead projector and markers

o        Beginning/Ending Chart-overhead transparency

 

§         Handouts provided

o        Story Map Practice Sheet

o        Beginning/Ending Chart

 

 

§         Words to know

 

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT 

Students independently complete a Story Map.            Assessment            Scoring Guide

 

LEARNING ACTIVITIES

 

  1. Use an overhead transparency of the Beginning/Ending Chart to record how the main character changed from the beginning to the end of the story.

 

Question

for

students

How did the main character change from the beginning of the story to the end of the story?

§         attitude

§         behavior

§         eating habits

§         dress

 

  1. Help students to explore finding important information in the text by asking what other information we can learn from the text besides the beginning/end. Other ideas would be-middle, characters, setting, problem, solution, and intended message or moral.

 

Strategy

Identifying important information in text is a skill that requires much modeling at the early primary level. For more information and different graphic organizers to use during reading, see 40 Graphic Organizers That Build Comprehension During Independent Reading by Scholastic.

 

For research and information on summarizing and note taking, read Classroom Instruction That Works by Marzano, Pickering, and Pollack

 

  1. Use the Story Map Practice Sheet. Guide the students to complete the setting and character sections. Guide students to refer back to the text and/or pictures to verify information. Guide students in writing a simple sentence to address each area. 

 

 

Questions

for

Students

 

What is the setting of this story?

When and where did it take place?

What characters were in the book?

What problem did the characters have?

What do you think we can learn from this story?

How was the problem solved?

 

Questions

for

Students

 

Help students build skills/confidence in identifying important information in texts through a variety of activities. You can use graphic organizers such as those included with this lesson, summary beach balls or cubes (available at teacher supply stores), or question cards such as those available with Kagan Cooperative Learning Fan N’ Pick card sets.