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SINK OR SWIM

Written by Valerie Coulman

Illustrated by: Roge

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This lesson plan provides younger readers with opportunities to explore a 3-event narrative story structure in a fiction text, as well as the writing technique of personification. This would be an ideal lesson plan for a small group or as a guided lesson experience focused on developing strengths in narrative story telling.

Lesson Objectives:

To be able to make sense of text in a 3-event, narrative story structure in a fiction text

To be able to explore the idea of personification used to tell a narrative fiction story

To be able to predict past the ending to stretch the story structure

Grade Level: 1 - 3

Common Core Connections:

Meaning: Multiple levels of meaning, implicit/explicit purpose

Structure: fantasy fiction structure, simple, repetitive text, picture book

Language Convention/Clarity: conventional structure, simple and repetitive language patterns

Knowledge Demands: multiple perspectives

Strategies:

Students will be able to make sense of text in a 3-event, narrative story structure in a fiction text.

Students will be able to explore the idea of personification used to tell a narrative fiction story.

Students will be able to predict past the ending to stretch/confirm understanding of the story structure.

Materials/Resources:

- SINK OR SWIM e-book on Tumblebooks

- SMARTboard or other interactive white board (or projector/laptop)

- Laptops/ipads

- Writing books/logs

Strategic Lesson Plan:

• Review with students the structure of this picture book (can ‘tell’ or do a brief picture walk on the Smartboard and support students with identifying this 3-EVENT narrative story structure (characters, setting, problem, 3 repetitive events, extendable solution)

• Explain to students this is a story where the animal characters have human qualities – a writing technique frequently used by writers called personification

• Discuss with the students the nature of this book – it has basically 3 similar events to help solve the problem, followed by an ending that has the potential to be extended by the reader

• Encourage students to be reflecting on the text as they read – why did the author write this story? (author intent) How does an ‘extendable ending’ make you feel as a reader? Why do you think the author chose this strategy for ending this particular story?

• Students will be reading the e-book SINK OR SWIM in pairs or triads on the laptops/Smartboard/ipads today

• Explain to the students they will be reading the story together and will be looking to reflect on the authors’ intentional use of personification and an extendable ending for this story

• Invite the students to begin listening/reading along to the e-book SINK OR SWIM on Tumblebooks in pairs or triads

• Circulate while students listen, offering support as needed and encouraging students to use their most useful reading and comprehension strategies

• When students are finished their first reading/listening experience, provide opportunities to share ideas and understandings from the story (3 – 5 minutes) using a ‘turn-and-talk’ format in pairs/triads

• Ask students to develop a brief ‘Reader’s Theatre’ from this story – practice fluency, intonation, expression – share with whole class

Additional Activities:

Developing ideas for a 3-Event, Stretched Ending story

Encourage students to brainstorm and plan ideas for a similar 3-event story that uses personification and a stretched ending (students can use illustrations, puppets, a web, etc. to capture their ideas)

Discuss how these techniques (personification and stretched endings) make reading more interesting as a whole group.

The Reader’s Theatre activity can be used as a formative assessment activity to assess awareness of story structure in 3-event narrative picture book.

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