Lesson 7

Subject: Literacy - Novel study Chocolate Fever by Robert Kimmel Smith Standards: RL.3.1 Reading Standards for Literature/Key Ideas and Details/Grade 3 students Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. Objectives/Students will Students will examine, consider, and combine context clues, using the five senses, in a text to determine setting. Models of Instruction: Direct teaching Guided practice Independent practice Technology: Smartboard

Topic: Setting using context clues and visualization

Grade: 3 October 3

Materials: Anchor chart Short stories Glorias Walk and Rainy Day Activity Figuring Out the Setting

Community Resources: Print shop

Connection to Prior Knowledge: Discuss five senses with students and explain how they can be used to determine setting in a text. Pre-assessment: Discuss setting to determine how many students are already familiar with story settings. Reading Strategies Visualization Inferring Blooms Taxonomy Knowledge Comprehension Application Analysis Synthesis Evaluation Multiple Intelligences/Differentiated Instruction Verbal/Linguistic Mathematical/Logical Visual/Spatial Musical/Rhythmical Bodily/Kinesthetic Interpersonal Intrapersonal Naturalist

Procedure: 1. Students will sit on carpet in front of easel and teacher will model how to use clues, in a text, based upon the five senses to determine setting. She will read aloud Glorias Walk and make an anchor chart of the five senses. 2. Story will be displayed on the Smartboard so clues can be highlighted and then added to anchor chart next to corresponding sense. 3. Students will then work in pairs, with the story Rainy Day, to determine setting, and make their own chart. 4. Teacher will lead whole class discussion asking for clues they found and highlight on the Smartboard. 5. Students will then independently complete activity Figuring Out the Setting. Formative Assessment: Formative assessment will be review of the final activity, which students complete independently.

Adapted from: Visualizing a Setting. (2013). Retrieved from ReadWorks: http://www.readworks.org/lessons/grade3/setting/lesson-1