LESSON SEVEN: Text Features of a Story
LESSON DESCRIPTION
GRADE-LEVEL EXPECTATIONS
R2A Recognize text features in fiction, poetry, and drama.
R2C Use details from text to
§ Make predictions
§ Identify author’s purpose
§ Identify events from beginning, middle, and end
LESSON MATERIALS
§ Sources of literature
o Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock, retold by Eric A. Kimmel
§ Supplies
o Chart paper
o Post-It Notes
§ Handouts provided
o Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock
§ Words to know
o fiction
o text features
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
When student reach the last Post-It note, p.18 (refer to learning activity three for explanation) they record their predictions and turn them in to monitor comprehension. Students map the characters, setting, beginning, middle, and end of the story, and the lesson the author wanted to teach.
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
1. Discuss spiders; create a web on chart paper. Say, “Today we are going to read a story about a spider. We will predict the setting, character, and problems, as well as what will happen next and decide if the story is fiction or nonfiction.
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Questions for students
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What do you know about spiders?
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2. Set purpose: “ I think this looks like a very interesting book (hold up). I want to read this book to find out why the hippopotamus is looking at that rock.” Ask students to make a prediction to a partner based on the cover. Suggestion: show interest in cover, identify Anansi.
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Questions for Students
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As students make predictions, ask: What makes you come to that prediction? Did the illustration help? Does this appear to be a fiction/nonfiction story? Why do you think so? What are the clues you used to make your prediction? Did part of the story make you change your mind? |
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Strategy
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Teacher support: what happens if the prediction we make is wrong? (Good readers ask questions to themselves while they read. We an always change the answers and the questions as we learn more from reading.) |
3. Explain that Post-It notes are throughout the story. At each Post-It, stop and use what was read to predict what will happen next, and share predictions with a partner. (Place the first note on page three: Anansi examining a rock.) Read to page three, make a prediction. Continue the story together, stopping at Post-It notes to share predictions.
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Idea
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Place Post-It notes in all student books to mark the stopping points. |
4. Introduce the story map and its purpose. Place titles on the story map. Use handout to complete story map.
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Questions for Students
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Why do you think the author wrote this book? What do you think he is trying to tell us? Does it remind you of any other stories? (text to text)
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