Before reading Chapter Six, I had different goals in mind for my students, but after looking over the appropriate age level of my goals, I decided to change them a little bit. Instead of focusing on theme (which suggests Grade 2 and up), I decided to focus on Objective A1-a: What lesson does ___________ learn in this story? I feel as if this goal is similar to the theme goal, but it is a beginning step. Before beginning the book, we will have a group discussion on the meaning of lesson and why it is important to look for one within a book. We will also go over the usual material we do with every book we read: title page, author, illustrator, genre, and preview the book's cover and predict what might happen. While reading the story, we will look for evidence of what might lead us to learning the lesson and then have a group discussion as the end to decide what the lesson might be. After doing that activity together, I am going to try to read the book Chrysanthemum (if I can find it) or Rainbow Fish (even though we've already read this one) to the students that I am working with specifically and let them work their way through finding the lesson on their own. We will use the form on page 51 of the book and fill it out together.
I'm only going to focus on this one activity this week because I think that it will take all week to build a good foundation of what it means to learn a lesson in a story.
I really like using this answer frame with my son! I liked learning about the difference between "lesson" and "them"!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that it is so important to focus on the lesson. I noticed that my student was able to give me a better summary than the actual lessons given in the book she read. I am hoping that the next lesson plan we attempt will be a little more successful in what we are trying to acheive.
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