Lesson Plan : Genres/Expository Text
Teacher Name: | Mr. 3-5 Grades |
Grade: | Grade 4 |
Subject: | Language Arts |
Topic: | expository/nonfiction elements |
Content: | nonfiction elements, title, facts, information, data, captions, photographs, headings, sub-headings, maps, graphs, charts, tables |
Goals: | Student will be able to distinguish between nonfiction and fiction genres. |
Objectives: | Student will be able to analyze a genre and identify the nonfiction elements in an expository text. Essential question: How can I identify the nonfiction elements in an expository text? |
Materials: | Expository texts for grades third through fifth, graphic organizers, pencils, 8"x11" copy paper, art supplies, scissors, rubrics for flip chart, Ticket Out The Door (answering the essential question) |
Introduction: | Groups of various genres (fiction: realistic, fables, folktales, historical; nonfiction: expository) for review by students |
Development: | Model how to search through text in order to identify its genre. Compare and contrast nonfiction and fiction texts. Explain characteristics of each genre type. Complete Venn diagram identifying similarities and differences of nonfiction and fiction texts. |
Practice: | In small groups, according to students' reading instructional levels, identify elements in expository texts together. List on class graphic organizer. (Nonfiction elements, title, facts, information, data, captions, photographs, headings, sub-headings, maps, graphs, charts, tables) |
Accommodations: | Text levels: Instructional levels of text, varies from second grade to sixth grade level. Graphic organizers: Instructional levels vary from introductory, intermediate, to advanced. |
Checking For Understanding: | 1)Presentation of findings from graphic organizer 2)Creation a four-part flip book which includes the definition of nonfiction elements and three examples, with use of rubric 3)Ticket Out The Door (answering the essential question) 4)Display of flip charts through class display |
Closure: | Students browse class Venn diagram about genres as well as classmates' flip book on display board |
Evaluation: | Completion of flip book and rubric, Ticket Out The Door (answering the essential question), presentation of findings from graphic organizer |
Teacher Reflections: | Inclusion and depth of standards/objectives/essential questions, time management, pacing of lesson, grouping schemes, effectiveness of differentiated instructional strategies, extensions/enrichments needed after lesson |
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