Grade 4, Reading
Std Oral Language VII-C:
C. Organize and present information
- visual (poster, multimedia, etc.)
- oral (speech, dramatization, etc.)
- print (report, student-generated work,
etc.)
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| Lesson Plans: Fiction
Lesson Plans
Here are lesson plans for stories from our popular fiction
anthology series Girls to the Rescue and Newfangled Fairy Tales.
Using
Creative Dramatics With the Teaching of Poetry
To help students develop
an appreciation for poetry. Also, this activity will assist students in
the process of creating meaning from poetry and making presentations.
Capitalizations and Washington, DC
Students write and present a descriptive - powergraph - that describes a
secret object using prior knowledge of adjectives, clustering graphic
organizers, and presentation skills.
Memoir: The Stuff of Our Lives
In this unit students will explore the genre of memoir. They will
see that writers write about the ordinary happenings of their lives and
that their own lives are packed with meaningful experiences that can form
the basis of their own writing.
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| Resources:
RT (Readers Theater) Scripting Sheets:
A
downloadable set of twenty practice sheets to use in team scripting
exercises.
Oral Presentations, A Printable Checklist:
This is a guide to help students in
their preparations.
Writing with Writers: Teacher's Guide:
Writing With Writers offers students the opportunity to learn and practice
writing in particular genres while having their work read by well-known
children's book authors.
Suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs):
(E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding)
E/B:
Answer simple factual questions about a presentation and represent
nonverbally (i.e. gestures, pictures, graphic organizers) or with simple
spoken words or phrases.
E/B: Identify the emotion conveyed by the speaker and express
with simple spoken words, phrases or sentences.
D: Identify a newscast or article that has impacted opinion of a
familiar issue; E: Identify the role the media play in forming
audiences' opinions.
D: Recite simple poems; E: Recite brief poems and most
dramatic dialogues.
E/B: Prepare and deliver simple narratives that follow a model
provided by the teacher and express with simple spoken words, phrases,
or sentences with assistance; D: Deliver simple narrative and
informative presentations and express with simple, detailed sentences;
E: Deliver simple oral responses to literature, as well as
narrative and informative presentations.
E/B: Identify the main idea conveyed by the speaker and express
with simple spoken sentences; D: Draw conclusions based on the
general content and delivery of an oral presentation; E: Draw
conclusions and some inferences based on an oral report from a speaker.
E/B: Prepare an oral presentation with a main idea. Use gestures,
pictures, tables, graphs, or charts, as well as simple spoken sentences,
in the presentation; D: Prepare and deliver and oral presentation
with a main idea and use volume and gestures to support the message and
express with simple, detailed sentences; E: Prepare and deliver
an organized oral presentation with a main idea and use volume, timing,
and gestures to support message.
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Language Arts