Kent, Jack. There’s No Such Thing as a Dragon. Dragonfly Books, 2009.
Lexile Level: 630
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Learning Standards
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
Goal
Students will be able to listen to a story and make connections to their own life. They will focus and recall the major events in the story that made a character feel ignored, and share their own connection in writing and drawing.
Objective
Students will be able to participate in a classroom discussion, following first grade level standards for conversation. (Psychomotor)
Students will be able to complete a graphic organizer including the four major parts of the story. (Cognitive)
Students will be able to draw a picture of a time when they felt lonely, and write at least one sentence describing it. (Affective, Cognitive)
Outcome
Students will listen to a story and participate in a discussion with their classmates about their story and their own experiences. Students will complete a graphic organizer, describing four major parts of the story. Students will then draw and write about a personal experience that related to the text, and share it with a partner.
Activity:
In a first grade classroom, the teacher will read the story aloud to the class. Before reading, they will ask the students if they have ever felt ignored, and what the word “ignored” means. The teacher will ask for examples at home and at school. The teacher will share that this is a story of an unusual character who felt alone. The teacher will ask the students to think try to make connections to their own story as they listen.
After reading, the teacher will ask students to take turns helping to share the most important events of the book.
Students will return to their seats and fill out a graphic organizer following the “Somebody...Wanted..But...So” template to include the four main parts of the story.
On the back of the graphic organizer, students can draw a time in their lives when they felt ignored, including at least one sentence to describe it.
Students will have a chance to share the story with a partner sitting near them.
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