Spooky Tales of 5th Grade-Part 3: Theme, Personification, and Fictional Narrative
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Phase:
After/Explain/Elaborate
Activity:
1. Students will be given a Student Checklist. This checklist will help guide the students' writing and ensure they incorporate the necessary requirements. The teacher will discuss the checklist and answer student questions.
2. The students will open the 5th Grade Spooky Tales Google Slides. They will use the graphic organizer they completed on slide 5 to help them write their fictional narrative. Students will also use slides 2 and 3 for examples of personification. The students will select one of the slides to type their story. They will choose from slides 7-11.
3. The teacher will assign partners and pass out the Partner Activity sheet and explain the procedures for the activity. The goal of this activity is for students to read their partner's story and identify the theme and provide text evidence from the story to support their answers. Students will also locate the personification examples used in the story and interpret the meaning.
4. When students are finished, they will submit their Google Slides and turn in the Partner Activity sheet.
Assessment Strategies:
The teacher will use the Writing Rubric to assess students' fictional narratives.
The teacher will use the completed Partner Activity sheet to assess student understanding of theme and personification. The teacher will check to see if:
the student identified a theme and provided accurate text evidence.
the student accurately identified examples of personification and interpreted their meanings.
Advanced Preparation:
Students will have previously submitted the Google Slides in Spooky Tales of 5th Grade-Part 2: Theme and Personification. The teacher will need to unsubmit the slides and return them so the students can have access to the Google Slides for this lesson.
The teacher will make copies of the Student Checklist for each student.
The teacher will make copies of the Partner Activity sheet.
The teacher will make copies of the Writing Rubric.