Lesson Plan (Arthur Writes a Story)

Teacher: Ruth Gonzalez Lopez

Story: Arthur Writes a Story

Author: Marc Brown

Theme: Something Special

Grade Level: Fourth Grade

Concept: Creative Writing

Content Standards:

• Listening
• Speaking
• Reading
• Writing

Grade Level Expectation: The student writes narrative, descriptive,exposiory and persuasive text demostrating command of Standard English, using research and organizational strategies, and the stages of the writing process.

Content Sandard #3: The student communicates effectively to a variety of audiences in all forms of writing through the use of writing process, proper grammar and age apropriate expresive vocabulary.

Strategy: Conceptualization

Thinking Skill: Synthesis

Assesment Thecnique: Comic Strips

Objetive: After finishing reading the story "Authur Writes a Story" the student will be able to:

• Answer questions from the story with the five W's and how.
• Identify the story elements in a short story.
• Write a narrative story of something importatnt to you. The story should have character, setting and a plot.

Materials:

• reproduced material
• textbook
• chart
• six- frame comic strips format
• a writing rubric
• flash cards
• sentence strips

Activities:

1. Initial:

• Grettings, date, weather, song
• The teacher will revew the character, setting and plot of the story.
• The teacher will encourage the students to write there answers in complete sentences.

2. Development Activities:

• The teacher begins to read the story while the students follow along and take turns reading aloud.
• The teacher will stop reading to ask questions of comprehension using the 5 W's and how.
• After finishhed the reading the student will be asked to choose a flashcard with some details from the story. They will identify the character, setting and plot of the story and glue them under the corresponding column of the board headed: Character, Setting, Plot.
• The teacher will hand in six frames comic strips to the students in which they will use to create a story. They should include charcters, setting and plot.

3. Closing Activities

• The students will work in groups to write their story.
• Each group will present their works to the teacher to be corrected.
• The students will share there work with others then display their comic strips in the classroom bulletin board.

Homework: Identify the parts of the story by filling in the bubble with the correct answer.

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