Lesson Plan : Folktales
Teacher Name: | Jessica Pelton |
Grade: | Grade 3 |
Subject: | Literature Activities |
Topic: | Folktales and their origin |
Content: | We are going to discuss a few well known folktales, and what they consist of. The students will get to see a variety of folktales, and that there is many different versions of some folktales. The students will learn where the folktales we are reading originated from. A few new vocabulary terms are: folktales, origin and versions. |
Goals: | 1. Students will know what the genre of folktales includes. 2. Students will be able to distinguish folktales and their origin. |
Objectives: | After completing this lesson, the students should know that there are more than one version of many folktales, where the folktales originated from and where to find that information, what a folktale is, and the difference between the original folktales and the more popular ones today. |
Materials: | Folktale books, pencils, paper, and a documentary over folktales |
Introduction: | The students will define various vocabulary words that are specific to our topic, such as; folktale, origin, versions, publisher, author, illustrator, etcetera. Then as a class, we will come up with a song to best memorize the most important vocabulary terms. |
Development: | The students will watch a brief, fun, and educational video over folktales. Also, we will compare folktales to other types of genres of literature we have studied thus far. |
Practice: | The students will be assigned groups. Each group will read a different folktale, and then summarize their story to the class through a poster. Then, we will analyze each story to give the students better understanding and clarification in meaning. |
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Checking For Understanding: | The students will take a short test over some of the vocabulary terms, and answer a few questions from the folktale that they read. |
Closure: | We will visit the library at the end of the lesson to show the students where the folktale books are located, and how to find them. |
Evaluation: | I will determine from the grades on the test, and the class discussions if the students need to spend more time on folktales. |
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