In this unit, students will continue the development of their knowledge of story elements and details. Students are already learning how to answer basic questions about a story. They have been learning to recount and retell various stories while paying special attention to important events or details and how they provide insight into the central message and lesson or moral of the story. When working through this unit, students will dive deeper into the significance of characters and their traits, feelings, and motivations. Students will learn about a variety of different character traits as they are seen through their reading of various stories, and they will learn how those traits, feelings, and motivations have an effect on the sequence of events in the story. This unit will lay the groundwork for students' knowledge of characters as they will build on this knowledge in future grades when they will learn to look deeper at characters' thoughts, compare and contrast characters, and describe how characters have changed.
Also, the things learned in this unit will help students in their individual lives (both personally and academically) as they learn to deal with their own feelings and character traits. As students discuss and write about the ways in which a character's traits and/or feelings influenced the events in a story, they are learning about consequences that can occur in the real world as a result of certain actions or behaviors. Students will learn about positive and negative character traits, and they will learn that the things they do and say can have an effect on the people around them as well as the events that unfold in their lives.
OBJECTIVES:
The learner will be able to:
Describe characters in a story.
Explain how characters are feeling.
Explain how characters' actions affect the events in the story.
Write a narrative with descriptive details and a clear event sequence
Organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally
Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to show the response of characters to situations.
Report on a text with appropriate facts and details, speaking clearly in complete sentences and at an understandable pace.
STANDARDS:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.3 Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3.A
Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3.B
Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.4 Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.6 Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification.
RATIONALE:
In this unit, students will continue the development of their knowledge of story elements and details. Students are already learning how to answer basic questions about a story. They have been learning to recount and retell various stories while paying special attention to important events or details and how they provide insight into the central message and lesson or moral of the story. When working through this unit, students will dive deeper into the significance of characters and their traits, feelings, and motivations. Students will learn about a variety of different character traits as they are seen through their reading of various stories, and they will learn how those traits, feelings, and motivations have an effect on the sequence of events in the story. This unit will lay the groundwork for students' knowledge of characters as they will build on this knowledge in future grades when they will learn to look deeper at characters' thoughts, compare and contrast characters, and describe how characters have changed.Also, the things learned in this unit will help students in their individual lives (both personally and academically) as they learn to deal with their own feelings and character traits. As students discuss and write about the ways in which a character's traits and/or feelings influenced the events in a story, they are learning about consequences that can occur in the real world as a result of certain actions or behaviors. Students will learn about positive and negative character traits, and they will learn that the things they do and say can have an effect on the people around them as well as the events that unfold in their lives.
OBJECTIVES:
The learner will be able to:
STANDARDS:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.3Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3.A
Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3.B
Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.4
Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.6
Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification.
COMMON CORE STANDARDS ADDRESSED:
Focus Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.3
Additional Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3.A
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3.B
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.4
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.6