7(A) Connect Meaning to Personal Experiences (Supporting)

Reading/Comprehension of Literacy Text/Theme and Genre. Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about the theme and genre in different cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence fromt he text to support their understanding
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6(B) dicuss the big idea (theme) of a well-known folktale or fable and connect it to personal experience	7(A) connect the meaning of a well-known story or fable to personal experiences	6(A) identify moral lessons as themes in well-known fables, legends, myths, or stories	5(A) paraphrase teh themes and supporting details of fables, legends, myths, or stories	3(A) summarize and explain the lesson or message of a work of fiction as its theme	3(A) compare and contrast the themes or moral lessons of several works of fiction from various cultures
connect the meaning of a well-known story to personal experiences connect the meaning of a well-known fable to personal experiences

Activities:

• Book Room - DRA 14 - The Boy And the Lion, The Wind and the Sun
• Read AESOP Fable and make connections using whole class poster or individual recording sheet.

Books from Runyan Library:
      AESOP's Fables Selected and Illustrated by Michael Hague
      The Best of AESOP's FABLES by Margaret Clark
      AESOP's FABLES by Heidi Holder
      AESOP's FABLES by Carol Watson

THEME Posters:

• Overcomming Challenges
• The Crow and The Jug
• Always be Kind to Others
• The And and the Dove
• The Fox and the Stork
• Believe in Yourself
• The Tortoise and the Hare
• Accepting Other's Differences
• Working Together
• Don't Be Afraid to Try New Things
• Be Happy With What You Have
• The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
• The Dog and the Bone

Website with AESOP fables:
   http://www.first-school.ws/theme/fables.htm - this website has printable versions and art activities

  http://www.umass.edu/aesop/fables.php - this website has online versions and a modern version of the fable

Texas Treasures - Reading Genres A Study Guide pg 1-6

• The Ant and the Dove  - Moral: Be kind to others and they will be kind to you

Benchmark - Write on Skill Bags

• Level 6-12 (Fiction), Genre - Fable
• The Fox and the Crow
• The Crow and the Pitcher
• The Ant and the Dove
• The Ant and the Grasshopper

Anchor Activities:


Possible Assessment Questions:

Figure 19 (F) Making Connections (Comprehension Skill)

English Language Arts and Reading
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(F) make connections to own experiences, to ideas in other texts, and to the larger community and discuss textual evidence.	(F) make connections to own experiences, to ideas in other texts, and to the larger community and discuss textual evidence.	(F) make connections to own experiences, to ideas in other texts, and to the larger community and discuss textual evidence.	(F) make connections (e.g., thematic links, author analysis) between lliterary and informational texts with similar ideas and provide textual evidence.	(F) make connections (e.g., thematic links, author analysis) between lliterary and informational texts with similar ideas and provide textual evidence.	(F) make connections (e.g., thematic links, author analysis) between and across multiple texts of various genres and provide textual evidence.
make connections to own experiences and discuss textual evidence make connections to ideas in other texts and discuss textual evidence make connections to the larger community and discuss textual evidence

Activities:

• Teacher makes three posters (Text to Self, Text to Text, and Text to World), in which students will post their post it notes with connections.
• Primary Comprehension Toolkit
• Book 1-Monitor Comprehension
•  Lesson 1, Think about the Text: using the book The Art Lesson by Tomie dePaola, students write/draw what they are thinking as the teacher reads the text.
• Book 2-Activate & Connect
• Lesson 6, Make Connections: using the book Patches Lost and Found by Steven Kroll, students use sticky notes to write/draw their T-S, T-T, and T-W connections.  Then, the important part "How does it help me understand" the text.
• Interactive Read-Alouds by Linda Hoyt
• Make Connections pg. 9 using Frog and Toad Are Friends "A Lost Button" by Arnold Lobel. Students make connections about the feelings that Toad was having.
• Share the Reading pg. 11 - students read teh statements dramatically, connecting to the correct behavior (said, cried, wailed, shouted, screamed).

Anchor Activities:

• Interactive Read-Alouds by Linda Hoyt
• Make Connections pg 10:
• During independent time with books, have children place sticky notes in their books when they think of connections
• Have children illustrate connections by sketchin the scene in a tory on one side of a page and sketching a connection tot heir life or another story on the opposite side of the page

Possible Assessment Questions: