Title: Analyzing Realistic Fiction with Tumblebook’s Enemy ...



Title: Analyzing Realistic Fiction with Tumblebook’s Enemy Pie by Derek Munson. Lesson Plan By Annette M. Bailey, MSGrades: 3, 4 and 5 Media Lesson Plan: Literature Appreciation 1.0: Students will demonstrate an appreciation of literature as a reflection of human experience and reading as a pleasurable activity. Objective: Students will understand:picture books can be realistic fictionauthors and illustrators carefully craft literary elements: setting, characters, problems and solutions to reflect real life. realistic fiction is a way to empathize with a character who is different from ourselves. realistic fiction can lead us to make text-to-self connections.authors and illustrators think carefully about the literary elements in their stories. realistic fiction stories can show us how to solve problems. Essential Questions: What makes a fiction story realistic? Who is the protagonist? Who is the antagonist?Who is/are the minor characters? What is the setting? What is the problem? How is it solved? Can you make a text- to- self connection?Student Learning Assessments:Formative: Students will be able to answer verbally and on the Notes Page - the questions listed above. Summative: On a multiple choice test, students will be able to identify the realistic fiction genre and the true to life literary elements authors and illustrators create. Materials:Tumblebook’s – Enemy Pie by Derek MunsonCopies of Notes Page for all students (See below.) Pencils for all students LCD ProjectorComputer(s)Headphones or ear buds (optional)Warm-up: Questions for Discussion: What is an enemy? What makes someone an enemy? How can we stop having enemies? What is realistic fiction? (A story that could happen, but didn’t.)How can you tell if a fiction story is/ is not realistic? How do authors and illustrators create believable fiction stories? (Characters and settings resemble real people and places. Problems and solutions are believable.)Why should we read realistic fiction? What other realistic fiction stories have you read?Direct Instruction: Distribute the Notes Page (below.) Have students read the questions aloud. Tell them to think about the questions as they read Enemy Pie on Tumblebooks. Project Tumblebooks to the class (or allow students to use computers and headphones to read the story individually.) Guide students through the steps of using Tumblebooks as you log in. Show students how to go to the Index or Story Books link and select the story Enemy Pie. Instruct students how to use the book controls. Guided Practice: Enjoy the story and read along silently. Independent Practice: Students should break into groups to discuss and then present their answers to the questions on the Note Page. Other students may disagree or add information. Extensions:Provide students with a list of realistic fiction picture books on Tumblebooks. Have students do the Word Catch and Verb Whack games on Tumblebooks. Ask students to write their own realistic fiction stories about how they solved a problem. Provide students with a realistic fiction list of printed books. Allow students to illustrate their own story.Discuss types of realistic fiction: growing up, death, mystery, humor, relationships, family life, school, sports, friends, pets, survival. Discuss the messages authors put in realistic fiction. Provide students with a list of realistic fiction authors.Use multicultural realistic fiction to “walk in someone else’s shoes”Establish a Realistic Fiction Reading Club.Examine Enemy Pie’s illustrations on Tumblebooks . What makes/does not make them realistic?Notes for Next Time:______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Name__________________________________________________________________My Notes OnWho is the protagonist? ______________________________________Who is the antagonist? ________________________________________Who are the minor characters? ________________________________________________________________What are the settings? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________What is the problem? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________How is it solved?_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Why is Enemy Pie realistic? Realistic people/ places/things:__________________________________________________________________________________________Can you make a text- to- self connection to this story? Why? Why not? ................
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