Beginning, Middle and End of a story Lesson
- Madison Fouhse
- Dec 6, 2018
- 3 min read
Beginning, Middle and End Lesson
Name: Madison Fouhse
Date: October 24, 2018
Subject: Reading Literacy
Grade: Three
Content: (Topic): Beginning, Middle and End of the story
Instructional Strategies: (Specific) Interactive Instruction
Outcomes: CR3.3Listen to and understand information, identify main ideas and supporting details, compare different ideas and points of view, and explain connections made between texts heard
Indicators:
( c ) Understand and apply the suitable pragmatic, textual, syntactical, semantic/lexical/morphological, graphophonic, and other cues and conventions to construct and confirm meaning when listening.
( d ) Follow multi-step directions independently.
Prerequisite Learning: N/A
Differentiated Learning/Adaptive Dimension:
Give instructions clearly and repeat so that everyone understands.
Ask questions to ensure students understand. Such as: Do you understand what we are doing?
Talk Loudly for student with hearing restrictions.
Preparation: (Materials, resources, equipment)
Materials:
Whiteboard & marker
Stone soup story on three pages
blank sheets of paper
princess pea story per student
princess pea picture page (One per pair)
Princess and the Pea Story
Princess and the Pea Pictures
Set (10 min)
Tell students that today you would like to retell a story to them using copies of pages from a storybook. Share with students that you have a problem because all of the pages became mixed up. In order to tell the story, the students will need to put the pages back in order.
Explain that you have one page from the beginning, middle, and end of the story.
Display the pages for students to see. Explain that you will help them with this task by teaching them about the sorts of things that often come in the beginning, middle, and end of a story.
On an anchor chart, write beginning, middle, and end in three sections.
Questions to ask the students: (writing these ideas on the board for students to reference later)
What words do we see at the beginning of stories?
How do we know when we are reading the middle of the story?
What usually happens in the middle of stories?
What words do we see at the end of stories?
Things that are introduced in the beginning?
Tell students that good readers look for certain elements of the story in the different parts. In the beginning, readers look for characters and the setting of the story.
Middle?
Explain that in the middle of the story, some sort of action or problem takes place, or something happens to the characters.
End?
Explain that at the end of a story, the characters are different in some way or the problem was solved.
Briefly retell or read from the story from which you have selected pages. “Stone Soup”
Model looking through the three pages you have copied to find where a character is introduced and a setting described. Think aloud as you read the text and examine the picture, describing what you see. Place the page corresponding to the beginning next to the beginning section on the anchor chart.
Model looking through the pages once more and thinking aloud to describe the remaining two pages. Place the middle page on the anchor chart.
Model looking at the pages and identifying key elements of the ending of a story. Think aloud to describe the text and picture. Place the ending page on the anchor chart.
Development (40 min)
Explain to students that they will work with a partner to read The Princess and the Pea and match pictures to the beginning, middle, and end. Tell students that they might have more than one picture for each part. Remind students to look for the key elements and refer to the anchor chart.
Have students fold a piece of construction paper in three parts and label each part with the letters B, M,and E for beginning, middle, and end. (Show Example)
Direct them to glue each picture into the area where it belongs. Have students store this as a reference for future activities.
Closure (10 min)
Have students gather together. Choose some students to share how they placed their pictures and how they determined whether they were in the beginning, middle, or end of the story.
Student Engagement/ Classroom Management Strategies
If students become off task redirect them to the activity we are doing.
Making sure everyone understands the task at hand before sending them off.
Pick partners for them?
Two story sheets, 1 picture sheet and 1 blank sheet per group.
When students are done the task they can grab their book box’s and sit quietly by themselves until the rest of the students are done.
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