Kimberly Larsen Literature Lesson 1 10/21/15

Grade Level: Grade 3

Student Learning Objective: Students will be able to understand the elements of a fairy tale, and identify fairy tales. They will be able to construct their own fairy tales incorporating the proper elements of a fairy tale.

CCSS:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.

Differentiation: By understanding that all students have differences, individual accommodations may be made. For a students who is academically not as advanced they may only be identifying the elements of fairy tales, and putting the parts of the fairy tales that they read in sequence. They may also choose to illustrate a fairy tale, or be encouraged to create a new beginning or end of a story.

Resources/ Materials Used: Computer, Smart Board, pencil, paper, various fairy tale stories, IPads, Book Creator App

Initiation: Students begin by making a list of fairy tales they know in a collaborative classroom discussion. As a class they can collaboratively discuss commonalities found amongst the different fairytales. They may also create a list of characters or character types they have seen in fairytales before.

Lesson Development:Initiation as described above.Then as a class students they will watch the powtoon video called Fairy Tale to learn about the elements of a fairy tale. Next, students work together in small groups to read, discuss, and analyze fairy tales and create a compiling of common elements.Students collaborate on their own original fairy tales—each student decides what kind of experience to write aboutThen students will compose and revise a fairy taleStudents will “ publish” their fairytales using the Book Creator app on classroom IPadsThe application allows students to create illustrations for their fairy tales and record themselves reading the story.

The lesson follows a process method that includes peer review and encourages using picture books as models and concludes with individual reflection on the group project and fairy tales.

Closure:Finally, students will present their fairy tales to the class. Students will be assessed by the teacher using the rubistar rubric created

Assessment: Students will be formally assessed using the rubistar rubric created. Students will have to show a clear understanding of the elements of a fairy tale, and have them demonstrated effectively in their stories.

Kimberly Larsen Literature Lesson 2 10/21/15

Grade: Grade 3

Student Learning Objective: Students will be able to understand and describe characters from fairy tales. Students also will be able to put a fairy tale in sequential order using terms like, first, then, next and finally.

CCSS:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.3

Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events

Differentiation: By understanding that all students have difference I have constructed this lesson to be collaborative. All students can participate in the class discussions and can be scaffolded by other students to help them generate ideas. The use of the visual thinglink can help learners to visualize the character they are describing. Students who need more guidance will have a copy of the book as it is read aloud and as the activities are being completed. This way they can have a reference to help guide them through the activities.

Resources: The book The three Little Pigs, Smart Board, individual computers or Ipads

Assessment: Students will informally be assessed during classroom participation of activities listed below. Students will formally be assessed individually by taking a short quiz to check their understanding of the sequence of events in the story as well as the characters involved on Quizworks.com. URL- https://www.onlineexambuilder.com/the-three-little-pigs/exam-41934

Initiation: The teacher will begin by introducing the students to the book titled The Three Little Pigs. The teacher will ask the students, What kind of story do you think this is? Students will have a brief discussion, and then proceed into reading the story.

Lesson Development:Initiation as described aboveStudents will be asked to then identify the characters in the storyThe class will collaboratively come up with character traits and describing words for the big bad wolfThen the class will use an image of the big bad wolf and the describing words and traits to create an interactive image using thinglinkThis will be a resource that can be used to remind students of how to describe charactersThe teacher will then pull up the smart notebook presentation called Kim-Lit lesson 2.2as a class the students will follow the directions in the smart notebook presentationThey will write in the order of events in the book The Three Little PigsStudents will be critically thinking and using comprehension skills to complete this assignment.

Students will then individually take a Quizlet quiz to assess their knowledge of the sequence of events that occurred in the story.Students will then go back to their seats and individually take the online quiz on Quizworks.com to check for their understanding.Closure and class discussion as described below.

Closure:As a class we will move back into a whole group discussion. We can talk about how the presentation allowed us to organize our thoughts and sequentially understand the story. The teacher may ask students to think of another way they could use the same organizer in writing. Students should be able to identify how they can use the organizer to create a story map when constructing their own narratives to help them stay organized. Also students will collaboratively discuss how important it is to understand the character roles in a story.