Alithea Price-Pearlstein Reading Enrichment Unit Grade Kindergarten

Practicum Theme: Thanksgiving Fiction or Nonfiction Teacher: E. OConnell Stage 1 Identify Desired Results

Virginia State Standards: K.9 The student will demonstrate comprehension of fictional texts. a) Identify what an author does and what an illustrator does. b) Relate previous experiences to what is read. c) Use pictures to make predictions. d) Begin to ask and answer questions about what is read e) Use story language in discussions and retellings. f) Retell familiar stories, using beginning, middle, and end. g) Discuss characters, setting, and events. K.10 The student will demonstrate comprehension of nonfiction texts. a) Use pictures to identify topic and make predictions. b) Identify text features specific to the topic, such as titles, headings, and pictures Common Core: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.5 Recognize common types of texts CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.1a Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.K.5 Identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.K.2 Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic. AASL 21st Century Learner: 1.1.1 Follow an inquiry- based process in seeking knowledge in curricular subjects, and make the real-world connection for using this process in own life. 1.1.2 Use prior and background knowledge as context for new learning, 1.4.4 Seek appropriate help when it is needed 3.1.3 Use writing and speaking skills to communicate new understandings effectively. 4.1.1 Read, view, and listen for pleasure and personal growth.

Understandings
Fiction books tell stories. Nonfiction books provide information. Authors tell stories using text. Illustrators tell stories using pictures.

Essential Questions
What is the difference between a fiction and nonfiction book? What types of books are fictional? What can you learn from a nonfiction book? Is a Thanksgiving book fiction or nonfiction? Why?

Knowledge
Students will know Key terms- fiction and nonfiction Fiction elements- Characters, setting, events Nonfiction elements- titles, headings, label Comprehension is an ongoing process Authors write stories Illustrators create pictures

Skills
Students will be able to Identify nonfictional books and fictional books Identify the author and illustrator Retell stories using pictures or text Connect their experience to pictures Use sequence words (before, after, next) Make predictions based on text or pictures

Stage 2 Performance Evidence

Performance Tasks Other Evidence Create a Thanksgiving/Fall Group participation nonfiction book illustrate and Observation using identify elements http://fictionnonfictionunit.weebly.c Create a Thanksgiving/Fall fiction om book illustrate and identify elements Independent practice Retell a story by illustrating the sequence of events Identify fiction and nonfiction books

Stage 3 Learning Plan

M 1. 2. Week 1 Begin KWL chartK, W Introduce terms fiction (fake or make believe), before, then, after Read Aloud Apples and Pumpkins by Anne Rockwell (E ROC) Model sequence of events from story. Week 2 1. Model differences between real and make believe 2. Chart with student participation various fall/thanksgiving pictures under real or make believe 3. Independent practice- students will draw 3 things that are real and 3 make believe. 1. Introduce nonfiction (not fake or not real) 2. Read Aloud We celebrate Thanksgiving in the Fall by Rebecca Felix (E FEL) Week 3 1. Review nonfiction elements-title, heading, labels 2. Read Aloud Balloons over Broadway : the true story of the puppeteer of Macy's Parade by Melissa Sweet (92 SAR Biography) 3. Discuss and make connects to schema. 1. Review and discuss nonfiction elements 2. Read Aloud Apples by Ann Burckhardt (641.3 BUR) 3. Independent practiceillustrate and label

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1. Introduce fiction term- characters, setting 2. Read Aloud, (E AUC) Beauty and the beaks : a turkey's cautionary

tale by Mary Jane Auch 3. Compare and Contrast characters Hen and Turkey elements 4. Independent PracticeIdentify characters and setting from pictures books

3. Chart differences fiction vs. nonfiction 4. Independent practice- Explore stories http://fictionnonfictio nunit.weebly.com/ 5. Independent Practice: The letter T http://www.kidzone. ws/kindergarten/lear ning-letters/ib-bookt.htm

1. Review fiction term events, characters, setting 2. Read Aloud Gracias, the Thanksgiving turkey by Joy Cowley (E COW) 3. Discuss and model story events 4. Independent practice illustrate story events including characters and setting using 4 square model 1. Review fiction elements 2. Read Aloud Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano (E SIL) 3. Independent Practice: Begin creating fiction

1. Introduce Nonfiction 2. Read Aloud Turkeys by Hollie J. Endres (636.592 END) 3. Group ActivityStudents sort fiction and nonfiction books at their table 4. Independent practice- eBooks http://fictionnonfictio nunit.weebly.com/

nonfiction elementstitle, bold text, label parts of an apple https://docs.google.co m/viewer?pid=explore r&srcid=0B5rA1Pr6Ek StMHZtbjI2MEh2Mk0 &docid=c4f1a30bfd69 35ebece9578ea3c5b 6de|75a1f3163fea701 eab1dcd3c4f38b601& chan=EwAAAHRu3h N1nBT8wrjCmfllVSc mRuVQzj8BrQJtzFS P7Il2&a=v&rel=zip;z2 ;Apple+Parts.pdf 4. Independent practiceExplore stories http://fictionnonfiction unit.weebly.com/ 1. Read Aloud Leaves by Gail Saunders-Smith, Gail 575.5 SAU 2. Chart nonfiction elements 3. Independent practice-Create nonfiction leaf book http://www.teacher spayteachers.com/ Product/BookletTrace-and-ColorAutumn-LeavesFREE-910749 1. Read Aloud: Why do leaves change color? Betsy Maestro (582.16 MAE) 2. Review nonfiction elements 3. Independent practice-Complete

1. Introduce nonfiction elements-title, headings, bold text 2. Read Aloud Thanksgiving is by Gail Gibbons (394.2649 GIB) Nonfiction 3. Model nonfiction

book http://www.teacher spayteachers.com/ Product/5-LittleTurkeys-362256 F 1. Review fiction elementscharacter, setting 2. Read In November by Cynthia Rylant (E RYL) 3. Independent practice-Complete fiction book

elements 4. Independent Practice- Explore nonfiction books

1. Read Aloud What is

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Thanksgiving? by Elaine Landau (394.2649 LAN) 2. Review nonfiction elements title, headings, labels 3. Pair Share- identify elements in nonfiction books. 4. Illustrate and label food items for a cornucopia: http://www.hubbards cupboard.org/Printa ble_Cornocopia.PD F

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leaf shape book Begin unit assessmenthttp://fictionnonficti onunit.weebly.com / Discuss and whole group sort fiction and nonfiction books Complete L of KWL chart Independent Practice- Journal what you know about fiction and nonfiction Complete unit assessmenthttp://fictionnonficti onunit.weebly.com /

Media Center Resources Fiction Titiles: 1. Bullard, Lisa (NF 394.2649 BUL), Graces Thanksgiving by Lisa 2. Bunting, Eve (E BUN), A turkey for Thanksgiving 3. Child, Lydia Maria (E CHI), Over the river and through the wood : the New England boy's song about Thanksgiving day 4. Cronin, Doreen (E CRO) Thump, quack, moo : a whacky adventure 5. Hall, Zoe (E HAL), The apple pie tree 6. Jackson, Allison (E JAC) , I know an old lady who swallowed a pie 7. Jules, Jacqueline (EJUL), Duck for Turkey Day 8. Klein, Abby (E KLE), Thanksgiving turkey trouble 9. Kroll, Steven (E KRO), The squirrels' Thanksgiving 10. Kroll, Steven (E KRO), Oh, what a Thanksgiving 11. Levine, Abby (E LEV), This is the turkey 12. Maccarone, Grace (E MAC), Turkey day 13. Nikola-Lisa, W (E NIK), Setting the turkeys free 14. Platt, Cynthia (E REY), Happy Thanksgiving, Curious George (Board book) 15. Pilkey, Dav (E PIL), Twas the night before Thanksgiving 16. Rylant, Cynthia (E RYL), Annie and Snowball and the thankful friends : the tenth book of their adventures Nonfiction Titles: 1. Aliki (633.1509 ALI), Corn is maize : the gift of the Indians 2. Anderson, Joan (974.402 AND), The first Thanksgiving feast 3. Crane, Carol, (394.2649 CRA), P is for pilgrim : a Thanksgiving alphabet 4. Flanagan, Alice K (394.2649 FLA), Thanksgiving 5. George, Jean Craighead (394.2649 GEO), The first Thanksgiving 6. Gibbons, Gail. (633.15 GIB), Corn 7. Heiligman, Deborah (394.2649 HEI), Celebrate Thanksgiving 8. Kessel, Joyce K. (92 SQU), Squanto and the first Thanksgiving 9. MacMillan, Dianne M (394.2649 MAC), Thanksgiving Day 10. Prelutsky, Jack (811.54 PRE), It's Thanksgiving 11. Royston, Angela (583.73 ROY), Life cycle of an apple 12. Ross, Kathy (Katharine Reynolds) (745.594 ROS), All new crafts for Thanksgiving

Fiction and Nonfiction Assessment

Name:________________________________________ Directions: Color if you think the story was fiction or nonfiction Story 1. Silly Turkey Genre

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2. Thanksgiving

3. A Home for Pearl Squirrel

4. Pumpkin, Pumpkin

5. Fall

6. Read Anything Good Today?

Name: ___________________________________________

Directions: Illustrate the sequence of events for the story.

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Gracias, The Thanksgiving Turkey by Joy Cowley Then Last