2: Literary Elements

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Literacy Model

Component 2: Text Structure (Literary Elements and Nonfiction Text Features)

Component 1

Component 2

Component 3

Component 4

Component 5

This detailed view articulates the specific objectives involved in Component 2 of our Literacy Model, as well as the content, lessons and assessments associated with each objective.

Objectives

specific tasks students will be able to do

Content

concepts, skills, strategies

Lessons

methods for teaching the content

Assessments

methods for measuring objective attainment

Identify the literary elements (character, setting, plot, point of view, theme) in a given work of fiction or narrative nonfiction

Identify the characters in a story

Be aware of the ways to know a character--appearance, thoughts and conversation, actions

Identify the setting of a story--its location in place and time

Summarize the plot of a story

Identify the conflict in a story

Identify the point of view from which a story is told

Understand the idea that story has a theme

Identify the text features of a work of expository nonfiction (headings, fonts, captions and graphics)

Character web

Modeling

Paired sharing

Compare/contrast

Oral reading to large group

Student independent reading

Story map

Large group discussion

Questioning strategies--factual/literal interpretive, evaluative

Pair/share

General character lesson (1998)

Character in a fiction series lesson (2000)

General setting lesson (1998)

"Read Around the World" setting lesson (1998)

Prairie Setting lesson (1999)

General plot lesson (1998)

Combined character, setting plot lesson (2000)

General point of view lesson (2000)

Using one book point of view lesson (1998)

From a pet's point of view lesson (1999)

General theme lesson (1998)

Reading Nonfiction Part 1 lesson (2005)

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