LESSON FIVE: Visualizing

                             

LESSON DESCRIPTION

Students visualize during reading the story and complete a graphic organizer, and a short radio announcement.

 

GRADE-LEVEL EXPECTATIONS

R1G         Develop and utilize the comprehension strategy of visualizing during reading

IL2          Identify intended messages conveyed through oral and visual media

W3B       Complete a graphic organizer to identify important information from text

 

LESSON MATERIALS

§         Source of Literature

o           Strega Nona by Tomie de Paolo

 

§         Supplies 

o        Paper for radio announcement

 

§         Handouts provided

o        Visualizing Context

 

§         Words to know

o        graphic organizer

o        media

o        visualize

 

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT 

Students create a one-to-two minute radio announcement to encourage travelers to visit a location.

 

LEARNING ACTIVITIES

 

  1. Review Stega Nona with students.   

 

Questions

for

Students

What do you recall about Strega Nona?

What do you recall about Big Anthony?
What other characters do you recall from the story?

What is Strega Nona’s town like?

What connections did you make while you were reading yesterday?

 

Strategy

An explanation of text connections can be found in Strategies That Work by Stephanie Harvey. In general, readers are reminded of something as they read (text to self, text to text, text to world).

 

 

 

 

  1. Discuss how the five senses help to visualize a story. Introduce the “Visualizing Context” graphic organizer. Model how to complete it during reading.   

 

Questions

for

Students

What could you “see, hear, taste, touch, smell” while you were reading yesterday?

What are some messages you would want to portray in a radio announcement?

What are some good things about Strega Nona’s community?

What are the main points you would want people to know about Strega Nona’s community?

 

  1. Distribute the “Visualizing Context” graphic organizer.  Students complete it as they reread Strega Nona. Work together to determine where and when the students think the story takes place.  

 

Strategy

 

If visualizing is new to your students, provide them with one specific sense to pay attention to while reading. For example: number off and students who are number one specifically listen/read to see what could be heard. Number two students read to see what could have been seen, etc., then come back together as a group to process.

 

 


 

Formative Assessment-Teacher

 

Students create a one to two minute radio announcement to encourage travelers to go to a location.