Focus:
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TEKS ELPS Focus question: The Importance of Conversation – What is your favorite way to waste time? The students will engage in conversations freely and feel free to share their thoughts. The teacher will explain the importance of conversation and how it effects student’s comprehension.
12.9 Conversation Playing Board pg. 336
Third Grade TEKS ELAR 110.14 (8) Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Fiction. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of fiction and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to:
(B) describe the interaction of characters including their relationships and the changes they undergo
74.4 (c)(4) (J) demonstrate English comprehension and expand reading skills by employing inferential skills such as predicting, making connections between ideas, drawing inferences and conclusions from text and graphic sources, and finding supporting text evidence commensurate with content area needs; and
Materials:
Text
Other This is Not My Hat By: Jon Klassen
Playing Board
Pencils
Sticky Notes
Explanation of the mini-lesson
What is the learner doing?
What is the teacher doing?
The teacher would start the lesson by having the students explain the importance of conversation.
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After reading the story, the teacher will have the students pick out a page in the book and have the students listed three or four ideas of what the character would say. The students would pick their best idea and place it on the playing board. One student would go first by placing their sticky note in the center, putting it “in play” and explain why they chose this idea. The other students would continue to talk about that idea, staying on topic, until the conversation diminishes and this continues until all ideas have been talked