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Introduction to Literary Text

Unit Plan

Introduction to Literary Text

Objectives

Students will understand and summarize the elements of literary text. Students will:

  • identify characters, setting, and important events in a story.
  • retell familiar stories, including key details.
  • compare the elements of character, setting, and important events across texts about similar topics.

Essential Questions

How do strategic readers create meaning from informational and literary text?
How does interaction with text provoke thinking and response?
What is this text really about?
  • How do strategic readers create meaning from informational and literary text?
  • What is this text really about?
  • How does interaction with text promote thinking and response?

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This video describes the elements of literary/fiction text and provides a song and actions to help children remember each element.

 

Formative Assessment

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    Short-Answer Items: (can be given individually and orally to students)

    1. What are characters in a story?
    2. What are the events in a story?
    3. What is the setting of a story?

    Short-Answer Answers: 

    1. who is in the story, 2. what happens in a story, 3. where the story happens

    Performance Assessment:

    Materials:

    Review or reread The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn. Then read a similar story that students can use for comparison. Examples include the following:

    • I Love You All Day Long by Francesca Rusackas. HarperCollins, 2004.
    • Oh My Baby, Little One by Kathi Appelt. HMH Books for young Readers, 2006.

    Write the title of the book you read on the first page of Performance Assessment Part1 (L-K-1_Performance Assessment Part 1.docx). Give a copy to each student and display a copy on an overhead projector. Read the headings of the boxes as you point to each one. Tell students to draw a picture of the characters, setting, and one event from the book you read. Students may also write a label or a sentence for each picture. Allow time for students to complete this part of the activity.

     

    Adapt Performance Assessment Part 2 to meet the needs of students at different conceptual levels. Students will compare The Kissing Hand and the story you read. Some students may need prompting to compare the stories orally. Other students may compare the stories by completing a Venn diagram or a chart (L-K-1_Performance Assessment Part 2.docx).

     

    Model how to use the Venn diagram or the chart by reading the headings or questions as necessary. Instruct students to draw or write one way the two stories are alike and one way the two stories are different. If assistance is needed, provide prompts, such as the following: Say, “Think of one thing that is the same about the two stories. Write or draw it in the middle section of the Venn diagram or on the left side of the chart.” Use similar prompts for differences between the stories.

     


    Performance Assessment Scoring Rubric:

    Points

    Description

    5

    Student demonstrates mastery of the concepts taught in the unit by successfully completing all required tasks:

    • Student response identifies the characters, setting, and a main event from the story.
    • Student response indicates one similarity and one difference between The Kissing Hand and another story.

    4

    Student successfully completes four of the required tasks.

    3

    Student successfully completes three of the required tasks.

    2

    Student successfully completes two of the required tasks.

    1

    Student successfully completes one of the required tasks.

    0

    Student response demonstrates no understanding of the concept being tested.

     

     

     

     

Final 12/2/13
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