LESSON THREE:  The Main Man

                             

LESSON DESCRIPTION

Students engage in activities such as cover talks, listening to a read aloud, and using graphic organizers to aid in developing reading strategies by visualizing, inferring, and identifying main ideas and important details.

 

GRADE-LEVEL EXPECTATIONS

I1C      Identify relevant information and record main ideas and important details in own words.

W3B   Identify concepts and ideas in written text to complete an organizer.

R1G     During reading, develop and utilize strategies to self question and correct, infer, visualize, predict and check using cueing systems (meaning, structure, and visual)

 

LESSON MATERIALS

§         Sources of literature 

 

§         Supplies 

o        Overhead Transparency

 

§         Handouts provided

o        The Main Man graphic organizer

 

§         Words to know

o        predict

o        main idea

o        graphic organizer

o        supporting detail

o        visualize

 

 

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT                          Assessment                   Scoring Guide

Students complete The Main Man graphic organizer after reading a tall tale. Students may select different main ideas as long as they are able to support that main idea.

 

LEARNING ACTIVITIES

 

  1. Students view the cover of the book Pecos Bill Steven Kellogg on a transparency. Discuss ideas introduced in the cover illustration. Students make predictions about the book. Help students visualize their predictions.

 

  1. Reads the first few pages without showing the illustrations. Discuss the events of the book as it is read. Point out character traits and details about Pecos Bill and model visualization.

 

Questions

for

Students

 

 

What is the setting of the book?

Why is Pecos Bill so tough? How did he learn to be this way?

How did Pecos Bill’s family feel when he was yanked off the wagon?

How can a student check his/her prediction?

 

  1. Do not show the students the book’s illustrations. After listening, students discuss the visualizations they predict in their minds. Students sketch a quick drawing of what they are visualizing. As the story develops, students discuss the relevant information in each passage including main ideas and supporting details. Students make predictions about what will happen in the story.

 

Strategy

To aid students with visualizing, have them close their eyes as you read aloud to help them create a picture in their imagination.

Stress the importance of details as they visualize.

Suggest that they think of using all five senses. For example: what might it sound like? Smell like? Feel like?

After discussing their visualizations, show the illustrations and discuss comparisons and contrasts to their sketches.

 

Idea

Students should focus on accurately identifying relevant information of main ideas and supporting details.

 

  1. Read a different tall tale aloud. Students use The Main Man graphic organizer to independently identify the main idea and details of the story.