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.