Literature+Unit+3+(Post)

=__**Post reading**__=

Discussion
I will ask, "What does Frog give Toad?" Next, I will ask, "Why is growing plants from seeds such hard work for Toad, and have you ever had to do anything that required you to work hard?" Next, we will have a question session where students will ask their own questions to me or the other students. Then we will summarize the points of the discussion, and record them on the smart board. They will record their answer as well as their peers in their journals along with a picture of them doing the hard work that they wrote about.

__**Purpose:**__ My purpose for this lesson would be to assess the multiple ways that my students were connecting to the text. By letting my students ask their own questions about the text I am addressing any concerns that they may have.

__**Comprehension and Collaboration standard 2:**__ Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

Making connections
I will have my students fill out a "making connections" sheet. One side is "Toad helped his seeds grow by...", and the other side is "I can help seeds grow by...?" We will use the post it notes from the during reading activity as a guide to what would go on either side, and the students can put new ideas down as they complete it. They will also draw their explanations in a box that is provided on the sheet.

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__**Purpose:**__ With the making connections sheet I want my students to describe ways toad grew his seed versus how they would grow a seed so they can see just how different the two ways are (or not so different), and to realize that different characters can sometimes do one thing many ways.

For Nathan V. (really good at memorizing) I would require him to draw some of the ways Toad tried to help his seeds grow, and how he could help seeds grow since his learning becomes difficult when confronted with written language.


 * __Presentation of knowledge an ideas standards 4, and 5:__** Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly, and add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.

Storybird
Students will be put into groups where they will collaborate together and come up with a story, they will create atleast three pictures to go with their stories. The topic for the story will be The Garden, and they will need to come up with a story that involves the students growing a garden together, they will need to include ways that they would try and plant seeds, and have them grow. I will have the students use storybird where they can record their stories, scan their pictures to the computer, and add the illustrations in with the recording of the story.

__**Purpose:**__ I want my students to work in groups and collaborate a story together as well as drawings because I want to make sure they understand the different ways Toad tried to get a seed to grow, and how it takes certain environmental factors for a seed to even begin to grow.


 * __Presentation of knowledge and ideas standards 4, 5, and 6:__** Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly, and add drawings, other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings, or produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation.

__**Production and Distribution of Writing standard 6:**__ With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.