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:

• Anderson, Laurie Halse, and Matt Faulkner.Thank You, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving. New York: Scholastic, 2002. Print. 394.2649/AND
• Brown, Marc Tolon. Arthur’s Thanksgiving (Arthur Adventure Series) Boston: Little, Brown, 1983. Print. HOL/E/BRO
• Flesher, Vivienne. Alfred’s Nose New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2008. Print. (Personal copy)
• deGroat, Diane. We Gather Together…Now Please Get Lost! New York: SeaStar Books, 2001. Print. E/DEG
• Jackson, Alison, and Judith Byron Schachner. I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie (Picture Puffins) New York: Dutton Children’s Books, 1997. Print. E/JAC
• Fiction/Nonfiction PowerPoint presentation
• Computer lab

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.