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Reading and Writing Fiction as Plays, Poetry, and Narratives

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Reading and Writing Fiction as Plays, Poetry, and Narratives

Unit Overview

READING AND WRITING FICTION AS PLAYS, POETRY, AND NARRATIVES

  3rd grade
  10 lessons
  This unit is divided into three sections to allow students to have reading and writing experience with plays, poetry, and narrative fiction texts.
  This unit consists of ten lessons.
  Handouts including graphic organizers
  Formative and Summative Assessment
  Glossary

Unit Plan: Lessons

Each session represents one 50-minute class period. 

Students

  Reader's Theater, Get Ready Word HTML (with links to documents)
Reader's Theater, Rehearsal Word HTML (with links to documents)
  Reader's Theater, Performance Word HTML (with links to documents)
  Listen to Poems and Rhyme Word HTML (with links to documents)
  Text Features of Poetry Word HTML (with links to documents)
  Create a Narrative Poem Word HTML (with links to documents)
  Text Features of a Story Word HTML (with links to documents)
  Text Features of Fiction and Nonfiction Word HTML (with links to documents)
  Write a Story Word HTML (with links to documents)
  Share Stories and Share Word HTML (with links to documents)

 Essential Questions:

  What processes does a reader use to understand a play, a poem, or a narrative story?
  Why is it important to understand the text features of each genre?
  What inferences need to be made to understand characters feelings in a play?
  What contribution does rhythm and rhyme make to a poem?
  Why must a reader understand cause and effect when reading a narrative story?

Summative Assessment and Scoring Guides:

The summative assessment can be done in part after each section or as a whole at the end of the unit.        

 

PREVIOUS LEARNING

TARGETED LEARNING

FUTURE LEARNING

Demonstrate concepts of print

  • Upper and lower case letters
  • First and last letters in words
  • Spaces between words
  • Letter and word order
  • Punctuation has meaning

 

 

R2A    Locate and apply information in title, table of contents and glossary. Recognize the text features of fiction, poetry and drama in grade-level text.

 

Locate

  • interpret and apply information in title, table of contents and glossary
  • recognize the text features of fiction, poetry and drama in grade-level text

Use details from text to

  • make basic inferences about setting, characters and problem
  • predict solution
  • identify events in logical sequence

R2C     Use details from text to

  • make inferences about setting, character traits, problem and solution.
  • make predictions
  • draw conclusions
  • compare and contrast characters and changes in problems in settings
  • identify the narrator
  • identify cause and effect
  • identify events from the beginning, middle, and end
  • identify author’s purpose

Use details from text to

  • make inferences about setting, character traits, problem and solution.
  • make predictions
  • draw conclusions
  • compare and contrast characters and changes in problems in settings
  • identify the narrator
  • identify cause and effect
  • identify events from the beginning, middle, and end
  • identify author’s purpose

Use parts of speech correctly in written text

  • descriptive words (adjectives)
  • substitute pronouns for nouns

 

W2D    Use parts of speech correctly in written text

  • verbs that agree with the subject
  • words that answer when, where, why, and how questions (adverbs)
  • words to compare (adverbs)

Use parts of speech correctly in written text

  • verbs that agree with compound subject
  • connecting words to link ideas (conjunctions)

 

Write narrative text that

  • records a series of events in chronological order
  • contains story elements

W3A    Write narrative text that contains

  • a beginning, middle, and end
  • relevant details to develop the main idea
  • a clear controlling idea
  • precise and descriptive language

Write narrative text that

  • moves through a logical sequence of events
  • includes details to develop the plot, characters, and setting

Listen for

  • enjoyment
  • for information
  • to solve problems
  • for directions to complete a simple task

LS1       Listen for

  • enjoyment
  • for information
  • to distinguish fact from opinion
  • for directions to complete a two-or three-step task

Listen for

  • enjoyment
  • for information
  • for directions
  • to identify tone, mood, and emotion of verbal and nonverbal communication