1. Topic-
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| Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch |
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2. Content-
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Comprehension Strategies:
Summarizing- Identifying Theme |
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3. Goals: Aims/Outcomes-
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1.Students will learn that authors often want us to learn a lesson
we can apply to our own lives.
2. Students will learn to look for the author's purpose in a story.
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4. Objectives-
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1.Students will be able to identify one of the themes of the story.
2.Students will use one of the "theme starters" we discussed to write
a theme of the story in one or two sentences.
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5. Materials and Aids-
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G. Courtney's graphic organizer,"Identifying Theme"
SMARTBOARD/Computer/Projector
Website:storylineonline.net/ |
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6. Procedures/Methods-
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A. Introduction-
1.Review:Identifying the theme of the story (lessons learned)
2.Play video: Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch |
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B. Development-
1.Summarize the story with student input.(Since we were concentrating
on Theme, I wrote the summary ahead of time and saved it on the desktop.)
2.Read the summary.
3.Read theme starters and ask students to name ones they see in the
story. |
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C. Practice-
Call on students to choose a theme starter and explain the lesson
they learned from the story.(Enlarge the page, choose a 2nd page,then
go to VIEW, ZOOM, DUAL PAGE to show both pages together- you can enlarge
and move back and forth between pages.
Write the theme starters named by students on the 2nd page. Theme
starters for this story could be: Love, Kindness, Friendship
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D. Independent Practice-
Students write a theme in their own words using one of the theme
starter words.
(Leave the pages open for students to refer to) |
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E. Accommodations (Differentiated Instruction)-
1.Teacher/Assistant will have student orally tell a lesson they
learned from the story, then repeat it for writing. Review what was
discussed earlier in lesson.
2.Students finishing quickly may write their own story summary.
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F. Checking for understanding-
| Students complete the graphic organizer independently. |
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G. Closure-
1.Students share some of the lessons they learned in the story.
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7. Evaluation-
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| Students have multiple opportunities to identify the theme of stories.
Compare understanding and progress. |
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