Kristin Sarboukh April 11, 2013 Professor Rich

Subject/ Topic: Interactive read aloud, 3rd grade, The Dragon Prince by Laurence Yep Standards: RL.2- Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures and determine their central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text. W.3- Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. SL.1- Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others ideas and expressing their own clearly. SL.2- Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally. SL.3- Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail. Objective: Students will be able make connections to the story in some way either by writing a well written paragraph or by answering questions. Procedure: Gather students to the rug by the tables they are sitting at (table one, two, three, four, or five). Pair students off for turn and talk partners before even introducing book. Show book cover and read the title, author, and illustrator. Have students turn and talk: o Just by looking at the cover of the book and by the title, what do you think this book might be about? Then have student share out what they think the book might be about. Have another turn and talk: o What do you think about the relationship between the dragon and the woman? For example, do they like each other? Know each other? Scared of each other? Then ask students share out what they thought. Say something along the lines of Okay so may this book will be about ____ or ____ because the dragon and the woman seem to ____ about each other. But have any of you ever met a dragon? (wait for replies) I didnt think so. Well lets start reading and see if maybe we can relate or understand this woman or the dragon in any way. Begin reading the book. On page 6, like an endless bolt of the whitest silk ask student have you ever had a time where you were really scared to do something but decided to be really brave and so it anyway for yourself or someone you care about? Have student turn and talk then share

about their answers. Trying to get them to begin connecting the book and its characters to their lives. Continue to read to until page 20 not for her beauty, but for her kindness. Then ask students Raise your hand if you have ever been jealous of someone before. It may be a sibling like in the story, or it may be a friend or relative. Students should raise their hands. In the story, Three is jealous because Seven has a beautiful life, and wonderful husband, and has all the riches in the world. Talk to your partner about why you jealous. Students will turn and talk and I will have them share out. Continue to read until the end of the story. Okay, so throughout the book, we talked a little bit about how we could relate our lives to the lives of the character in the story. It is very important for a reader and a writer to be able to do this and make connection between stories and their lives. In just a few minutes, we are going to use this story and write a connection, but first, lets go over what a good connection paragraph looks like. Call on students to ask what should be in a good connection paragraph. They have been working on this so they should know most of the answers. Come to the conclusion that a good paragraph has a topic sentence, what you read and the author, a short summary of what the story was about, the main idea or theme of the story, and a connection and write these five things on the board. Use the story we read a few weeks ago, Diary of a Spider, and model this for them using all five parts of the paragraph. o Topic sentence: Who could have thought I would have something in common with a spider o Book and author: Diary of a Spider by Doreen ___ o Summary: About a spider who kept a diary of his life over a few months o Main idea: Not judging someone before getting to know them o Connection: Just like daddy long legs in the book, I judged someone for the way they ate their food. I thought they were weird but once I got to know them, I realized they were no different than I was. Make sure everyone is clear about the instructions and then dismiss them by their tables.

Assessment: Turn and talk, answers students give throughout the story when trying to get them to make connections, and students will either write a paragraph or answer questions in order to make a connection to the book. Management issues/ transitions: Called everyone to the floor based on the tables they are sitting at, established turn and talk partners before reading the story, explained assignment before going back to seats, modeled the assignment for them, and dismissed students by the tables they are returning to. Differentiation: Based on each students ability, students will either we writing a paragraph based on their connection to the book or they will be answering questions to help them connect. The questions will help those students who have trouble focusing because it gives them the structure they need to answer the same questions the other students will be answering in paragraph form. I will also be writing the five things they need in their paragraph on the board for the visual learners who need that and for other students to use as a reminder.