Lesson #4
Lindsay Frank
Grade 3
Bairnsdale Primary School
Subject: Literacy/Writing
Title: Recount/Summarize Text through Cloze exercise
Objective: Students in this lesson will fill in a cloze passage of the story they got
read to yesterday, Flat Stanley. The cloze passage will have key events in order for
the students to fully understand what took place throughout the text.
Standards:
3.RL.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring
explicitly to the text as the basis for answers.
3.RL.3 Describe characters in a story and explain how their actions contribute to the
sequence of events
3.RL.5 Refer to parts of stories when writing or speaking about a text, describe how
each successive part builds on earlier sections
Materials:
- White Board
- Marker
- Pencil
- Visual cue cards for question words
- Picture Recounts
- Cloze Paper
Academic Language:
- Recount
- Events
- Who
- What
- Where
- When
- Why
- How
Procedure:
Introduction: “So remember yesterday when we read the funny story, Flat Stanley?”
Students should respond, yes. “Well today we are going to do a recount activity about
the story and what happened.”
Class Discussion/Teacher Modeling: “What we need to start with is; what is a
recount? We have done a lot recently so it should be fresh in your brain! Lets put on our
thinking caps. “Lets try and brainstorm/recall some of the important details that we read
yesterday in the story. Make a chart (The students may not come up with all of these,
just some ideas)
Characters
Place
Events
Stanley
Bedroom
Bulletin board fell on
Stanley
Arthur
Mr. and Mrs. Lambchop
School
Art Museum
Stanley went to doctor
Stanley got shipped in an
envelope to California
Mr OJ Dart
Tree
Stanley was a kite
Thomas
In the sky
Stanley helped at the art
museum
Doctor
His house
Stanley didn’t like being flat
Doctors office
Arthur blew him back up
“Now, does anyone have any questions as to what they are doing? (Answer) Please
head quietly back to your seat, and fill in the blanks to those words that are missing.
Independent Time: While students are working on their recount cloze activity at their
desk walk around and monitor anyone who may need additional support as well as
reminders to stay on task. Remind students that the word bank is on the board if they
have spelling questions or not sure what words go in the blank.
Accommodations: For the students in the class that may need further accommodation
there will be a few different methods of support:
- I will create a small group where instead of writing the recount the students will
instead have pictures of the events that took place in the story in order to help
remember the story. This will help the ELL student, struggling readers as well as
any student needing additional support. Once they have the picture recount filled
in they may be able to work on the cloze activity because of the clues.
- Students that are struggling readers may need the paragraph read aloud to them
in order to fully understand what is being said.
- The book will also be available for students to use if they need it to look back
Closure: Students will all be finishing at different rates in the class. To check their work
I will have extra typed up copy that they can put in order and check against their paper to
make sure they have included all the important details.
Assessment:
3.RL.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring
explicitly to the text as the basis for answers. Students will be assessed informally by
answering questions while still sitting during the whole class discussion about a recount.
Here students are able to answer the questions correctly about what a recount is as well
as events that took place in the story. They will provide examples in the text if
commenting about something that was read.
3.RL.3 Describe characters in a story and explain how their actions contribute to the
sequence of events. Students will understand and describe the characters in the story by
correctly placing the action words in the blanks of the cloze exercise. Since we have
been working on comprehension in class students will use those skill in order to correctly
place description words in the blanks
3.RL.5 Refer to parts of stories when writing or speaking about a text, describe how
each successive part builds on earlier sections. Students will be both informally and
formally assessed on this by both answering questions correctly orally to the class as
well as filling the blanks in with the correct terms in which are associated with the story.
-Accommodation: For those students that are completing the picture recount activity,
they have a goal to correctly place the events that took place in order on the paper. This
will be assessed based on accuracy of events in order.