FOLLOW THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD TO Resources Fiction & Fantasy A Bad Case of Stripes ~David Shannon Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? ~Eric Carle Buenas Noches Gorila ~Peggy Rathman Corduroy ~Don Freeman If You Give a Dog a Donut ~Laura Numeroff Knuffle Bunny ~Mo Willems Olivia Goes to Venice ~Ian Falconer Tacky the Penguin ~Helen Lester The Pout-Pout Fish ~Deborah Diesen
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Apples for Everyone ~Jill Esbaum A Picture Book of Thomas Jefferson ~David A. Adler A Seed is Sleepy ~D. H. Aston & S. Long We the People: The Story of our Constitution ~Lynne Cheney
Examine the cover of the book. Preview the text. Help students to connect to previous knowledge and make predictions about the story.
Allow the students to walk the storytelling pathway and retell the story in their own words. As students walk the story ask them important questions about the story elements to ensure comprehension. Students can work together to complete a story elements graphic organizer.
Materials: Book Butcher Paper Crayons or Markers
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Explore
Read the story aloud to the students. Discuss the meaning and important parts of the story. What did the students think was important about the story? How can they relate to the story? Did they like it? Why or why not?
Explain
Review the important elements of story structure and their meanings: character(s), setting, plot, problem, and resolution.
Extend
Help students make connections to the elements of story structure and the story that was read aloud. Model how to create a story pathway. On a long piece of bulletin board paper draw a winding path. At the beginning of the path, draw a visual clue of the first event. Allow the students to help you complete the story path using visual clues for the story elements. After drawing the story, let the children color it in and add any missing details.
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Lesson Rationale: Learning the basic elements of a story helps students develop their reading comprehension. It is also foundational knowledge necessary to become effective readers and writers.
Goals Objective: Language arts students will be able to retell a story by creating a storytelling pathway. When asked to identify and describe the elements of story structure, including setting, plot, character(s), problem and resolution the students will do so with 80% accuracy.
Next Generation Sunshine State Standards Literary Analysis: Standard
1: Fiction
The student identifies, analyzes, and applies knowledge of the elements of a variety of fiction and literary texts to develop a thoughtful response to a literary selection.
Kindergarten LA.K.2.1.5 The student will participate in a group response to various literary selections (e.g., nursery rhymes, fairy tales, picture books), identifying the character(s), setting, and sequence of events and connecting text to self (personal connection) and text to world (social connection).
Grade
1
LA.1.2.1.5 The student will participate in a group response to various literary selections (e.g., nursery rhymes, fairy tales, picture books), identifying the character(s), setting, and sequence of events and connecting text to self (personal connection) and text to world (social connection).
Grade
2
LA.2.2.1.2: The student will identify and describe the elements of story structure, including setting, plot, character, problem, and resolution in a variety of fiction;
Grade
3
LA.3.2.1.2: The student will identify and explain the elements of story structure, including character/ character development, setting, plot, and problem/resolution in a variety of fiction;
Grade
4
LA.4.2.1.2: The student will identify and explain the elements of plot structure, including exposition, setting, character development, problem/resolution, and theme in a variety of fiction;
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5
LA.5.2.1.2: The student will locate and analyze the elements of plot structure, including exposition, setting, character development, rising/falling action, problem/resolution, and theme in a variety of fiction;
References: http://fairydustteaching.blogspot.com/2011/01/walking -path-of-fairy-tale.html
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