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Picture Understanding! Building Comprehension in the Primary Grades With Picture Books

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Title:

 Picture Understanding! Building Comprehension in the Primary Grades With Picture Books

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Type: Lesson/Unit Plan

Overview:

Comprehension is an essential component of successful reading. Through modeling and progressive levels of independent work, students become aware of the importance of retelling and essential story elements. Students demonstrate their understanding of stories through the use of online interactive graphic organizers and present story elements of an individual book through a book talk.

Content Standard(s):
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 1
R1. Utilize active listening skills during discussion and conversation in pairs, small groups, or whole-class settings, following agreed-upon rules for participation.
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Teacher Vocabulary:
R1.
  • Active Listening
  • Discussion
  • Conversation
  • Rules
  • Participation
Knowledge:
R1. Students know:
  • Active listening skills.
  • Agreed-upon rules for participation.
Skills:
R1. Students are able to:
  • Demonstrate active listening skills during discussion and conversation in pairs, small groups, or whole-class settings.
  • Converse in pairs, small groups, and large groups.
  • Practice the agreed-upon rules for participation.
Understanding:
R1. Students understand that:
  • Conversations and discussions follow agreed-upon rules to help us actively listen and gain understanding.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 1
8. Apply previously-taught phoneme-grapheme correspondences to decodable words with accuracy and automaticity, in and out of context.
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Teacher Vocabulary:
8.
  • Phoneme-grapheme correspondences
  • Decodable words
  • Accuracy
  • Automaticity
  • In context
  • Out of context
Knowledge:
8.
  • Phoneme-grapheme correspondences in decodable words.
  • Accuracy is getting something correct, and automaticity is reading the word quickly without having to sound it out.
Skills:
8. Students are able to:
  • Accurately and automatically decode words by applying previously-taught phoneme-grapheme correspondences, in and out of context.
Understanding:
8. Students understand that:
  • Fluent readers use known phoneme-grapheme correspondences to decode words correctly and quickly.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 1
21. Identify the main topic and key details of literary and informational texts.
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Teacher Vocabulary:
21.
  • Identify
  • Main topic
  • Key details
  • Literary texts
  • Informational texts
Knowledge:
21. Students know:
  • Main topic of literary and informational texts.
  • Key details of literary and informational texts.
Skills:
21. Students are able to:
  • Identify the main topic of literary and informational texts.
  • Identify key details of literary and informational texts.
Understanding:
21. Students understand that:
  • Literary and informational texts have a main idea and supporting details.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 1
23. Identify and describe the main story elements in a literary text.

a. Describe the characters and settings, using illustrations and textual evidence from a story.

b. Retell the plot or sequence of major events in chronological order.
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Teacher Vocabulary:
23.
  • Identify
  • Describe
  • Story elements
  • Literary text
23a.
  • Describe
  • Characters
  • Settings
  • Illustrations
  • Textual evidence
  • Story
23b.
  • Retell
  • Plot
  • Sequence
  • Major events
  • Chronological order
Knowledge:
23. Students know:
  • Main story elements in a literary text.
23a.
  • Characters in a story.
  • Settings in a story.
  • Characters and settings in a story can be identified using information from the text or illustrations.
23b.
  • Chronological order.
  • Techniques for retelling a literary text orally using key details./li>
Skills:
23. Students are able to:
  • Identify the main story elements in a text.
  • Describe the main story elements in a text.
23a.
  • Identify characters in a story.
  • Identify the setting of a story.
  • Describe the characters of a story using illustrations and textual evidence.
  • Describe the setting of a story using illustrations and textual evidence.
23b.
  • Identify major events in a story.
  • Retell the plot of a story in chronological order.
Understanding:
23. Students understand that:
  • Literary texts include predictable story elements, such as plot, characters, setting, conflict, and resolution, to help the reader to better comprehend the text.
23a.
  • A story tells about a character's experience, and they can use information from the text or illustrations to identify and describe characters in a story.
  • The setting is the time and place that a story takes place, and they can identify and describe the setting by using information from the text or illustrations.
23b.
  • The major events that occur in a story is called the plot of the story.
  • Chronological order means that a story has a timeline of events that occur in sequence from beginning to end.
  • They can demonstrate their comprehension of a story by describing its main events in chronological order.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 2
13. Read grade-appropriate poetry, noticing phrasing, rhythm, and rhyme.
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Teacher Vocabulary:
13.
  • Grade-appropriate poetry
  • Phrasing
  • Rhythm
  • Rhyme
Knowledge:
13. Students know:
  • The features of poetry include phrasing, rhythm, and rhyme.
  • Words rhyme if their vowel and ending sounds are the same (example: ham, Sam).
  • Rhythm is a steady beat made by stressed syllables in spoken words.
  • A phrase is a group of words.
Skills:
13. Students are able to:
  • Read grade-appropriate poetry.
  • Notice the features of poetry, including words that rhyme, stressed syllables that create rhythm, and words that are grouped together in phrases.
Understanding:
13.
  • Poetry is a genre of text that uses distinctive style and rhythm to aid in the expression of feelings.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 2
23. Identify the main story elements in a literary text.

a. Explain the plot of a narrative, using textual evidence to list the major events in sequence.

b. Describe the characters' traits, feelings, and behaviors in a story.

c. Describe the setting of a narrative, using textual evidence.

d. Identify the central message or moral of a story.

e. Identify the theme in myths, fables, and folktales.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
23.
  • Story elements
  • Literary text
23a.
  • Plot
  • Narrative
  • Textual evidence
  • Major events
  • Sequence
23b.
  • Describe
  • Character
  • Traits
  • Feelings
  • Behaviors
23c.
  • Setting
  • Narrative
  • Textual evidence
23d.
  • Central message
  • Moral
23e.
  • Theme
  • Myths
  • Fables
  • Folktales
Knowledge:
23. Students know:
  • Literary text is a story that contains story elements, like a plot and characters.
23a.
  • Plot is the main events of a story (often referred to as the beginning, middle, and end of a story).
  • The sequence of events is the order in which the story takes place.
23b.
  • A story author provides descriptions of the characters' traits, feelings, and behaviors.
23c.
  • Setting is when and where a story takes place.
23d.
  • A central message or moral is the lesson that is learned through the story or the one big idea of the story.
23e.
  • Theme is the main, recurring idea in a text.
  • Myths, fables, and folktales are fictional pieces of text.
Skills:
23. Students are able to:
  • Identify the main story elements in a literary text, such as characters, settings, and plot.
23a.
  • Explain the major events of a story in order by using text evidence.
23b.
  • Describe characters' traits, feelings, and behaviors by using information from the text.
23c.
  • Describe the setting of a story by using evidence from the text.
23d.
  • Identify the central message or moral of a story using information from the text.
23e.
  • Identify the theme of a myth, fable, or folktale.
Understanding:
23. Students understand that:
  • Literary texts include story elements, and they can identify the various elements to better understand the text.
23a.
  • The plot is the main events of the story that happen in a particular sequence.
  • The plot can be explained by using words or phrases from the text.
23b.
  • Understanding each character's traits, feelings, and behaviors will help them better understand a story's plot.
  • They can learn about characters by carefully reading the story and describing the characters' traits, feelings, and behaviors.
23c.
  • They can use information from the text to learn when and where the story takes place.
  • They can use the text to describe attributes of the setting.
23d.
  • Stories will often have a central message or moral that the author intended to share with readers.
23e.
  • Myths, fables, and folktales are often written to convey a particular theme or main message.
Tags: book talk, Circle Plot Diagram, comprehension, Cube Creator, interactive graphic organizer, modeling, retelling, story elements
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