Literature Lesson

Chloe Carter
Read Aloud of Thank You, Omu Illustrated and written by Oge Mora

Lesson of Book (Special ed classroom so I had to change this to a book of interest) This book
talks about the value of sharing and being a part of your community.

Lesson Overview
Objectives/ Assessment
 The students will agree on the main idea of Thank You, Omu by Oge Mora and apply it
to actual situations.
 Formative: I will pay attention to student responses during the grand conversation to
see if they understand or don’t understand the main idea or key concepts of a a story
and reteach where required.
 Summative: The class will collaborate as a whole to discuss the main idea of the story and
three key details to support the main idea. (as shown below). Then they will discuss
how they all can share in the future and help the community around them.

Management of:
 Time:
 Materials: Thank you, Omu by Oge Mora
  Space: For the read aloud the students will sit on the couches in a circle around me.
Collaboration will also take place sitting around me on the couches. The students will
then go back to their seats to work on
 Behavior: I want students to be attentive during the read aloud and participate in the
grand conversation. I will reward the students with smiley faces which can result in extra
iPad time at the end of the day. If they get more than 5 frowny faces, they will not
receive extra iPad time.

Related State Standard

 2.RL.2.1- Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text to
demonstrate understanding of main idea and key details in a text.
Differentiation and Culturally-Responsive Practices:
 In the grand conversation, have the students discuss a time when they shared with
others. How did this make you feel?
 In the grand conversation, have the students share a time where someone shared with
them. How did this make you feel?
 The actions that the students will take give opportunity for every level to engage
appropriately
 Struggling learners will have the support of the read aloud and the collaboration of their
small group.

Building Background knowledge

Activating Background Knowledge: I will pass out a piece of candy to each student. I will talk
about a time that someone shared their candy with me because I didn’t have any. Then I will
ask the students to think about a time when someone shared with them. I will ask/tell the
students “When someone has shared with you in the past how did the experience make you
feel? I want you all to be thinking because we are going to share those experiences later.”

Purpose: “Today, I am going to read to you the story Thank You, Omu by Oge Mora. I want all of
you to be listening and observing the main characters in the story to help us figure out the main
idea and key details.”

Essential Questions: What is one way we can share with others?

Constructing Understanding
 Read Aloud: I will read to the story to the students using different voices for each of the
characters.
For each step, Include:
  Students will listen to the story being read and participate in a grand conversation
Response Initiates: I will begin with questions to illicit their natural responses and then probe
the natural responses to explore the main idea and key details of Thank You, Omu.

 How did you like the story?

 What did you like about it?

 What didn’t you like about it?

 What do you think the problem was in the story?

 What consequences do you see for the choices that the characters made?

 What big idea can we take away from this story?

Using New Understanding

 Extension/ Independent Response Activities: In a whole class group we will brainstorm
ideas of what we think the main idea of the story is and how we can support that main
idea. Then as a group we will choose the main idea and fill out the stool with three
supporting details. (See in photo above). They will then each independently describe
how they are going to share in the future.

Closure

 The characters showed the value of giving and receiving with those in their community.
What can we do to show we have learned something from the main idea of Thank you,
Omu?