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Grade Level: 4
1. Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize
Common Core the text.
Standards
2.Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly
and when drawing inferences from the text.
3. Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a
text.
21 Century
Skills
st
Lesson
1. Students will be able to analyze a theme of the story and identify the authors
purpose.
Objectives
2. Students will be able to apply details when answering questions on the worksheet
provided.
3. Students will be able to explain the authors purpose based on the main points of
the story.
1.
Students will be filling out a chart on the worksheet provided. On this chart, they
will be analyzing the authors purpose for writing this piece.
Acceptable 2. Students will be answering questions on the worksheet provided. The students will
Evidence
be answering these questions using details from the story.
3. Students will be doing the entire worksheet with help from peers and the teacher.
Procedure
Bell Ringer
The teacher will reintroduce the topic (Authors purpose) by assigning the Bell
Ringer.
The teacher will ask guided questions. For example: What do you think this story is
about just by looking at the title page?
The teacher will hand out the worksheet for students to begin filling out the chart.
The teacher will begin reading out loud The Horned Toad Prince, and ask for
volunteers to read.
The teacher will stop reading and ask questions about the text as well as vocabulary
questions when needed.
The student will read if they decide to volunteer.
The student will answer questions out loud if they volunteer to answer.
The teacher will redirect students to the worksheet during the reading to fill out the
chart.
When the reading is done, students will finish the chart on the worksheet and share
answers with the class.
The teacher will then direct students to begin answering the questions on the bottom
of the worksheet.
The student will have an opportunity to talk about these questions with classmates.
The students as a class with the teachers help will come up with a topic sentence to
begin answering question number 1.
The student will answer questions 1 on their own.
Repeat for question 2.
A few students will share answers out loud with the class.
The teacher will collect worksheets to check for understanding.
Students will open up their notebooks and will answer the following question: What
do you know about authors purpose? What does authors purpose mean?
Learning Types
visual, auditory, Students are given a worksheet for kinesthetic learners. Students are given an
opportunity to view the worksheet on the Smart Board for visual learners. Students
and kinesthetic
are listening to the story that is being read to them. The teacher will also be talking
about the questions out loud for auditory learners.
Checks for
Teacher will be constantly checking for understanding by asking guided questions
Understanding:
during the reading, as well as collecting the worksheet at the end of the lesson to go
over.
Engagement
Assessment/
Evaluation
Technology
Closure
Resources/
Materials
Formative Assessment: Teacher will be collecting the worksheet at the end of the
lesson to check if students understood how to figure out Authors purpose.
The teacher will be using the smart board for a power point (just to have questions on
the board) as well as have a copy of the worksheet on the board for students to see.
Teacher will ask if students would like to share their answers to the questions on the
worksheet. After some have shared answers, the teacher will collect worksheet to
review.
Time Required
80 minutes
Comments:
above.
Student/Class
Profile
Materials:
Procedure:
Complete by:
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Include:
cognitive
engagement &
formative
assessment (s)
Include possible
adjustments if
warranted by
formative
assessment
Include grouping if
any
Closure:
Homework
Begin by: ___ :___
/Announcements:
Name:_____________________________________________
Date:__________________________
Authors Purpose
The Horned Toad Prince
Beginning
Did the story
entertain
me?
Did it make
me laugh?
Middle
End
Name: ____________________________________________
Date:________________________
Authors Purpose:
The Horned Toad Prince
Question 1:
An authors purpose can be to teach the reader an important lesson. What
lesson do you think the author teaches in this story? Use details from the story to
support your answer!
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Question 2:
What was the most important event in the story? Why do you think this?
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What was the PURPOSE of putting this event in the story? What was the author
trying to tell us as readers? (Was she entertaining us? Was she persuading us? LOOK
AT YOUR CHART!)
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