“ORC Lesson Plan”

http://www.ohiorc.org/Literacy_K5/K2Bookshelf/Default.aspx?BookID=7

 Lesson Plan - Grade 2
Standard - Writing W.2.5 -Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.

 PRIOR LEARNING
 Class read alouds.

                                                                             

     
                                                                         OBJECTIVES                                              This lesson is designed to expand primary students' summarizing skills. In this lesson, students will summarize Arthur Writes a Story by Marc Brown. First, they will work in groups to complete assigned parts of a story map; Characters, Setting, Beginning, Event 1, Event 2, Conclusion. Then, they will summarize the entire story as a class. Finally, they will create their own summary picture books to help them summarize the story.
        

Make a story map together as a class and tape the story map across the front board.

For students who need more help, use this lesson plan using stories that students already know well.

If additional support is needed, use the previous summarizing lesson plans, and use different books. Encourage students to make "summary books" of stories that you read aloud to them throughout the year and have them share their summaries with other classes to encourage other students to read the same wonderful books your students are reading in class.

Remind them that their summaries should always be shorter than the real book because a summary only includes the most important information about a story. (short and Sweet)

For students who are struggling writers, tell them that they can draw whatever they want that reminds them of their section for their story map.

 Instructional Strategies: Detailed descriptions specific teaching strategies that can be used with any level of student and in any subject.

Activities

First, you'll ask them to break into groups and fill in one part of a story map, without too much of your help, about Arthur Writes a Story.

 Second, you'll ask them to help you put the parts of the story map in order.

Third, they will summarize Arthur Writes a Story to you as a class.

Fourth, you are going to give them "book" pages on which they will write and draw about Arthur Writes a Story. They will use their books to summarize the story for their family members. Remind them that their summaries should always be shorter than the real book because a summary only includes the most important information about a story. It should be "short and sweet."

Fifth, Create a decorative story-map title page on a piece of chart paper that includes the title of the story, and the author's and illustrator's names.