Explain how setting, events, conflict, and character development contribute to the plot in a literary text.
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| What's the Theme in The Well? | This lesson uses the text, The Well written by Mildred Taylor. In this reading lesson, students will analyze the story elements as textual evidence to support the text’s theme. This lesson is to be used before a complete read of the text. |
| Identifying Themes Across Cultures: Lesson on Theme | In this lesson, students will learn to determine the universal theme of a story. They will first identify the problem and solution of a story and use that information to determine the theme or author's message, and from there, they will determine the universal theme. Finally, they will compare and contrast the text with another story with a similar theme. This lesson uses the texts Indian Children's Favorite Stories retold by Rosemarie Somaiah and Filipino Children's Favorite Stories retold by Liana Romulo. |
| Reading of the Folk Tale "The Sly Fox and The Little Red Hen" | This lesson will provide an in-depth look at the folk tale, "The Sly Fox and The Little Red Hen." By the completion of the lesson, students will have described the different character perspectives. They will also have written a new version of the folk tale based on the things they learned about the characters and that puts a twist on the original version. |
| Using Idioms to Explain the Plot and to Predict Future Events | In this lesson, students will use idioms to explain a plot and predict what will happen next in a story. The featured text for this lesson is the book In a Pickle and Other Funny Idioms by Marvin Terba. There are also two practice passages provided with the resource. |
| What’s in a Chapter Name? | Using the book Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan, students will complete a graphic organizer and identify the theme of a chapter. Once students have identified the theme they will create a new title for the chapter. |
| Planning Creative Drama | This lesson introduces students to a creative and engaging way to understand story structure and elements of plot by allowing the students to write and act out a play. Students make selections from a provided list featuring various settings, characters, and conflicts and build their creative plays using a ready-made story feature template. |
| Discovering Florida's Past with A Land Remembered (Lesson 2 of 2) | Students will go on adventures with the MacIvey family as they work cooperatively to summarize a text. |
| Exploring the Relationship Between the Protagonist and Antagonist | This is the third of three lessons in a fourth grade unit on characters. Students will identify and describe how the relationship between the protagonist and antagonist affects the plot. The teacher modeling and guided practice uses the story Hansel and Gretel retold by Rika Lesser. The other lessons in this unit are attached as related CPALMS resources. |
| Identifying and Describing the Antagonist of a Story | This is the second lesson in a fourth grade unit on characters. Students will identify and describe the antagonist in a story using text evidence. The lesson uses Hansel and Gretel retold by Rika Lesser in the teacher modeling and guided practice. The other lessons in this unit have been attached as related CPALMS resources. |
| Identifying and Describing the Protagonist in a Story | This is the first lesson in a fourth grade unit on characters. Students will identify and describe the protagonist in a story using text evidence. The lesson uses Hansel and Gretel retold by Rika Lesser in the teacher modeling and guided practice. The other lessons in this unit have been attached as related CPALMS resources. |
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| Comprehension: Character Connections | In this activity, students will identify similarities and differences between characters. As an extension activity, students will compare the perspectives of two characters. Graphic organizers are provided for character analysis and comparisons. |
| Comprehension: Character Consideration | In this activity, students will describe characters using a graphic organizer. |
| Comprehension: Check-A-Trait | In this activity, students will identify similarities and differences between characters' traits (as determined by actions, thoughts, and feelings). |
| Comprehension: Plot Plan | In this activity, students will write the parts of a plot on a graphic organizer. |
| Comprehension: Plotting the Plot | In this activity, students will identify the components of a plot using a graphic organizer. |
| Comprehension: Retell Recap | In this activity, students will retell or summarize a story. |
| Comprehension: Retell Review | In this activity, students will retell or summarize a story. |
| Comprehension: Side-by-Side Stories | In this activity, students will identify similarities and differences between stories and record them on a graphic organizer. |
| Comprehension: Story Element Ease | In this activity, students will identify and sort story elements (character, setting, problem, solution, theme, plot). They will then compare and contrast the elements of different stories. |
| Comprehension: Story Mapping | In this activity, students will identify story elements (character, setting, events, problem, solution) and record them in a graphic organizer. |
| Comprehension: Story Pieces | In this activity, students will answer questions related to story elements (characters, setting, plot, theme) and record their answers on a graphic organizer. |
| Comprehension: The Main Events | In this activity, students will sequence events in a story using a graphic organizer. |
