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TALL TALES

CURRICULUM

TALL TALES

Unit Overview

This unit consists of a series of sequenced lessons. Each lesson begins with a listing of specific information. Each lesson contains sequenced learning activities designed to provide scaffold instruction (building on previous knowledge) and practices to develop student mastery of skills.

 TALL TALES

  4th grade
  6 lessons
  Students identify characteristics of tall tales, delve into comprehension through decoding and vocabulary practice, and identify story elements of the tall tales they read.
  Handouts including graphic organizers
  Formative and Summative Assessment
  Glossary

Unit Plan: Lessons

Students

  Tall Tales Introduction Word HTML (with links to documents)
Vocabulary Through Text Word HTML (with links to documents)
  The Main Man Word HTML (with links to documents)
  Vocabulary Square Word HTML (with links to documents)
  Media Messages Word HTML (with links to documents)
  Story Pyramid Word HTML (with links to documents)

 Essential Questions:

  What are the characteristics of tall tales?
  What mental images are created through exaggeration?
  What lessons are learned through tall tales?
  How can I learn new vocabulary through text?
  How can identifying important information help me to comprehend text?

Summative Assessment and Scoring Guides:

Students read a tall tale. Some items on the assessment are designed using Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett by Steven Kellogg but students could read another story and still be able to answer the assessment questions.        

 
 

PREVIOUS LEARNING

TARGETED LEARNING

FUTURE LEARNING

 

Apply decoding strategies to independently problem-solve unknown word while reading.

 

 

R1C  Apply decoding strategies to problem solve unknown words.         

 

 

Apply decoding strategies to problem solve unknown words when reading

 

Develop vocabulary through text using root words, synonyms, antonyms, context clues, glossary, and dictionary skills.

 

R1E  Develop vocabulary through text, using root words, affixes, synonyms, antonyms, context clues, glossary, and dictionary 

 

Develop vocabulary through text using base words, synonyms and antonyms, context clues, glossary, and dictionary.

 

 

Utilize strategies to self-question and correct, infer, predict and check using cueing systems (meaning, structure, visual) during reading and read aloud.

 

 

R1G  Develop and utilize comprehension strategies during reading.

Utilize comprehensions strategies during reading.

Identify important information in written text to complete a graphic organizers including: T-charts, Webs, and KWL charts.

W3B  Identify concepts and ideas in written text to complete an organizer.

Identify important information in text to complete an organizer.

Identify main ideas and list details

I1C  Identify relevant information and record main ideas and important details in own words.

Use a specific note-taking format to record relevant information

Identify intended messages through oral and visual media

I2A  Identify and explain intended messages conveyed through oral and visual media

Analyze messages conveyed through various media (videos, pictures, websites, artwork, plays, and/or news programs)