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Fourth Grade
Reading & writing
Exploring the Narrative
July 20, 2017
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by Maggie Knutson

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Exploring the Narrative

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by Maggie Knutson
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Grade
Fourth GradeFifth Grade
Subject
Reading & writingWriting ProcessWriting OrganizationEssay WritingStructure of a Narrative EssayGenre WritingNarrative WritingWriting Realistic Fiction
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W.5.3
English Language Arts and Reading Grade 3 3.11.A 3.11.B.i 3.11.B.ii 3.12.A Grade 4 4.11.A 4.11.B.i 4.11.B.ii 4.12.A Grade 5 5.11.A 5.11.B.i 5.11.B.ii 5.12.A
English Grade Three W.3.8.d W.3.8.f Grade Four W.4.7.e W.4.7.i Grade Five W.5.7.f W.5.7.d
English Language Arts Grade 3 A 2.2 Grade 4 A Grade 5 A
English Language Arts Grade 3 2.4.C.1 2.4.C.2 Grade 4 2.4.C.1 Grade 5 3.3.A.1 4.3.B.1
English Year 3 ACELY1682.b ACELT1601.a Year 4 ACELA1493.a ACELT1607.a ACELY1694.c Year 5 ACELY1704.b ACELY1704.b
English Level 3 W.VCELY266.2 W.VCELA262.5 W.VCELT264.1 Level 4 W.VCELA292.1 W.VCELT298.1 W.VCELY299.3 Level 5 W.VCELY329.2 W.VCELY329.2

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Learning Objectives

  • Students will be able to describe the main parts of a plot.
  • Students will be able to identify different kinds of narratives and the key features of a narrative.

Introduction

(5 minutes)
  • Facilitate a Know, Want to Know, Learned (KWL) process with the topic: narratives.
  • Write KWL on the board, 'K for Know, W for Want to Know and L for Learned.'
  • Ask students what they know about narratives, noting their responses and ideas under each category.
  • Ask them what they want to know, and explain that at the end you will come back to this and discuss what they learned.

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

(10 minutes)
  • Connect any of the ideas shared in the opening activity with the idea that narrative is a broad genre. Explain that any story is a narrative but there are many kinds of stories.
  • Distribute the What is a Narrative? Kinds of Narratives worksheet.
  • Follow the directions on the sheet to create a map of the different genres that narratives can fall under.
  • Make connections to other discussions your class has had about genres.

Guided Practice

(10 minutes)
  • Explain that stories all have similar elements or features. Some of the terms in the next activity they’ll surely be familiar with and some will likely be new.
  • Project the What is a Narrative? Key Features worksheet.
  • Review each of the terms in the box at the top. Discuss each term as a class and making connections to stories you read as a class.

Independent working time

(10 minutes)
  • Distribute the What is a Narrative? Key Features worksheet.
  • Assign students to complete this sheet independently or with a partner.
  • Review the answers as a class when all students have finished.
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Differentiation

Support

  • Complete the exercise as a class as you review it in Guided Practice/Modeling.

Enrichment

  • Have students use the Diagramming the Plot of a Story worksheet to examine the plot of a story they have recently read.

Assessment

(10 minutes)
  • Have students complete the Understanding Plot by Creating Your Own Story worksheet to apply their knowledge of plot terms to a simple story of their own.

Review and closing

(5 minutes)
  • Come back to the KWL that you started with. Ask students to share some things they learned about narratives in this lesson.

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