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Fiction/Nonfiction, Thanksgiving Books for Lower Elementary

November7

Week 10 week of November 12 PowerPoint

adapted from Flagler’s School’s Focus Skills Fiction/Nonfiction PowerPoint (retrieved November 9, 2013)

Subject/Grade/Teacher:

  • Media/Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd Grades

Unit/Theme:

  • Nonfiction/Fiction/Thanksgiving

Standards:

  • AASL 4.1.3

Lesson Objective(s):

  • Students will respond to literature and creative expressions of ideas in various formats and genres.

Language Objective(s):

  • Express feelings about characters and events in a story.
  • Make connections between literature and their own experiences.

Key Vocabulary:

  • Review: Nonfiction, fiction

Materials:

Preparation:

  • Links to background
  • Links to past learning
  • Strategies incorporated

Scaffolding:

  • Modeling
  • Guided practice

Group Options:

  • Whole class

Integration of Processes:

  • Reading
  • Speaking
  • Listening

Application:

  • Hands-on
  • Meaningful
  • Linked to objectives
  • Promotes engagement

Assessment:

  • Group
  • Oral

Transition:

  • Open the Fiction/Nonfiction PowerPoint Presentation on the Promethean board.
  • Review what students know about the two words.

Anticipatory Set:

  • Go through the slides of the presentation including the questions to help students discern the difference between fiction and nonfiction.

Instruction/Check for Understanding:

  • Show the cover of the book, “Arthur’s Thanksgiving,” or one of the fiction books and review elements of the cover (title, author, etc.).
  • Point out the connections between the title and the cover illustration.
  • Ask students to predict the story using the cover. Expand to predictions about the story using their prior knowledge of the “Arthur” series.
  • Read the book. Review predictions afterwards and gauge accuracy.
  • Show the cover of the book, “Thank you , Sarah.”  Ask students to predict whether the story is fiction or nonfiction.  (Younger children will often predict it is fiction because the illustrations are humorous drawings.)
  • Read the book .

If there’s time:

  • Read one of the other books.

Closure/Summary:

  • Review predictions.

Transition to the computers:

  • Use the Promethean Board to demonstrate the change in the desktop with the icon for my school blog (Mrs. Harrison’s Blog at http://iblog.dearbornschools.org/harrisc1/. )
  • Show how students click on the icon and the hyperlink in the blog to go to the site for today.

Preview for Next Week:

  • Tell students we will continue reading Thanksgiving books next week.
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