Story+Elements


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Topic: Story Elements: Setting Grade Level: Kindergarten Subject(s): Reading 1. Unit plan title: Identify the setting  2. unit plan summary: Our main objective is for students to evaluate story elements by first identifying the characters, setting, and key events on a story. This unit plan will mainly focus on setting. The teacher will read the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The students will complete a visual ranking activity, illustrate/design a house focusing on setting, and acting out the different parts of the story distinguishing each setting.  3. curriculum framing questions: Essential Question Why do we read stories? Unit Questions How does the setting effect the story? What do you need to make a story? Content Questions What is the setting in the story? Who are the characters? What events happened within the story? What do the characters do in the story?  Project Idea:  Visual Ranking Project:  Seeing Reason Project: 
 * Real World Connection(s): Understand how stories are created.
 * Student Role(s): Author, Creator, Editor, Illustrator, and Publisher.
 * Scenario: Understand the elements of a story as well as develop literacy skills. Gain an insight in the skill of evaluating.
 * Idea/Overview: Students will evaluate the importance of different material objects in relation to the setting through the perspective of Goldilocks and the little bear.
 * How will the use of the tool fit into your Unit Plan and help your students meet the learning objectives and target higher-order thinking skills? Our unit plan is about setting and this visual ranking tool will play a key role in our students ability to question and evaluate, which in turn is a higher order thinking skill.
 * Concerns you might have about using the tool or incorporating ranking: The teacher will have to read to the students, lack of visuals, and make sure everyone can understand and follow procedures.
 * Feedback you would like from others: We would like any procedural ideas that will help us implement this tool with younger students.
 * Idea/Overview:What affects the setting? Students will create a map that illustrates the setting that will increase/decrease the chance to see a bear.
 * How will the tool fit into our Unit Plan and help your students meet the learning objectives and target higher-order thinking skills? Cause and effect are higher order thinking skills for kindergarteners. We will use this tool to illustrate how the setting will change within a story. As well as be affected by the characters.
 * Does your unit involve a complex system or issue that warrants delving into identifying and analyzing cause-and-effect relationships? Not really but we made it work. This is going to be a whole group activity that is led by the teacher.
 * Concerns you might have about using this tool: It takes kindergarteners time to gain understanding about cause and effect. We will be challenging them with this project.
 * Feedback you would like from others: Any ideas about how to make this work within our classroom.