Subject Area: Reading/Language Arts
Concept/skill: Identifying Structure
Grade: 3-6
Time Frame: 60 minutes
Language Arts State Goals: 1.B.2b
Goal:
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Students will be able to determine the structure of a book and using a model organizer, analyze its parts. |
Objectives:
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Students will be able to identify the structure of a story to improve comprehension. |
Materials: My Brother Martin
Instructional Procedures:
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It is important to discuss with students the different types of story structures that exist. |
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Using the organizers as a starting point, discuss with students, description, compare/contrast, cause and effect, and sequencing. |
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The book My Brother Martin lends itself to sequencing. |
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After thoroughly discussing the different patterns, have students come up with examples of different items that could be used in each category. |
Activity:
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Read My Brother Martin with students. |
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Discuss with students what point of view is. This story is written from the perspective of a sister. Another good point of view story is The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. |
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Discuss with students what a biography is. A biography is the story of a person’s life. |
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Discuss with students how the author organizes her thoughts. |
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Using large chucks of the story, when he was born, pranks they used to play, playing in their neighborhood, getting older and facing certain realities, the effects this had on MLK’s life work, talk about the pattern that is emerging. |
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Have students decide on a pattern and then have students analyze the story to use that pattern. |
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Allow students to work in pairs. |
Assessment:
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Have students sequence the events of Christine’s life (or another biography) using one of the patterns. |