Overview and Background: Unit: Frog & Toad

Name:  Joni Watkins

 

Cheney Elementary : Grades 2

 

Title:

Frog & Toad

Topics:

Reading, Writing 

Time Frame:

Three weeks  - (one week for fiction, one week for expository text, one week to read other books to see if students can distinguish between the two.)

Start Date:

 

 

Other Designers:

 

Summary:
Students will do various activities with the book Frog and Toad are Friends.  Then they will do activities with a frog and toad expository text.  By the end students will be able to differentiate between expository text and fiction.

 

Print Materials Needed:  Frog & Toad books

Resources:

 

Resource Attachments:

Fiction v. Non-Fiction Graphic Organizer

http://www.cheney268.com/Learning/Organizers/fictionvnonfiction.htm

Internet Resource Links:

 

Notes:

 

 

Stage 1: Identify Desired Results

 

Standard:

KS

Title:

Reading, Writing

Standard(s):

Reading

1.10 Responds to text in a variety of ways.

1.12 Read orally with fluency and expression

1.13 Read self-selected and teacher directed materials orally and silently.

1.17 Respond to reading in a variety of ways

Writing

1.1      Use graphic organizers, brainstorming and oral discussion as part of the prewriting process.

1.2      Create rough drafts to be edited and revised

1.3      Use peer editing and self editing skills as part of the editing process.

1.4    Use edited copy to create a revised document

 

 

 

Understandings:

Different types of literature have different uses.

Different types of literature have different characteristics.

 

Essential Questions:

How can you tell fiction from non-fiction?

How do different types of literature differ from each other?

How do we use different types of literature differently?

 

Knowledge and Skills:

K

The difference between expository text and fiction.

 

S

Determine if a book is expository or fiction.

 

Stage 2: Determine Acceptable Evidence

 

Assessment Summary:
Students will assume the role of the city librarian and shelf books either in the fiction or non-fiction sections.

Student Directions:

You are a librarian at the Cheney City Library.  You are in charge of putting all of the fiction books in one section and the expository books in another.  It is your job to read the books and decide where they go. Put the name of each book on Fiction v. Non-Fiction Graphic Organizer and then decide whether it is fiction or non-fiction and why.

Rubric:

 

Other assessment evidence to be collected:

 Fiction v. Non-Fiction Graphic Organizer used with daily reading activities.

 

 

Stage 3: Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction

 

Learning Activities:

Show students pictures on the monitor of frogs and toads. See if they can tell you which is which. 

Read all of the different stories out of Frog and Toad are Friends.  Have students answer QAR questions about each story.  Do the first ones together, then with partners, and finally on their own.

Discuss the stories in Frog and Toad are Friends.  Discuss if they are fiction or facts.  Discuss what makes a story fiction.  Have students brainstorm other stories they have read that are fiction.

Teach “quotes”!  Student’s make a Frog and a Toad puppet.  Then they write a conversation between Frog and Toad.  Use the book Frog and Toad are Friends as an example.

Discuss the story “The Letter” in the book Frog and Toad are Friends.  Have students write a friendly letter.  Discuss the parts of a letter.  Brainstorm ideas for what you could say in a friendly letter.  Use a graphic organizer as a template and have kids write a friendly letter to someone of their choosing.  Revise the letter with the help of the teacher.  Make a final copy.

Discuss what was different about the expository facts they read, compared to the fiction book of Frog and Toad are Friends. 

Choose a variety of other books to read aloud in the next few days and have students tell you if they are factual books or fiction books.

Assessment – Have students read different books and label them fiction or expository text.