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    - The 30 minute lesson taught 3rd grade students to identify fiction and nonfiction texts. Students learned about key elements like illustrations, characters, and settings that indicate a fictional story, and text features like tables of contents, diagrams, and captions that signal a nonfiction text. - During an activity, students analyzed book covers and pages to determine whether examples were fiction or nonfiction based on these elements. They discussed that while certain elements often appear, a book does not need all elements to be clearly categorized. - At the end, students voted on a book to read together, taking turns identifying elements as they read to classify it as fiction or nonfiction. They also shared their reading preferences.

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    - The 30 minute lesson taught 3rd grade students to identify fiction and nonfiction texts. Students learned about key elements like illustrations, characters, and settings that indicate a fictional story, and text features like tables of contents, diagrams, and captions that signal a nonfiction text. - During an activity, students analyzed book covers and pages to determine whether examples were fiction or nonfiction based on these elements. They discussed that while certain elements often appear, a book does not need all elements to be clearly categorized. - At the end, students voted on a book to read together, taking turns identifying elements as they read to classify it as fiction or nonfiction. They also shared their reading preferences.

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    - The 30 minute lesson taught 3rd grade students to identify fiction and nonfiction texts. Students learned about key elements like illustrations, characters, and settings that indicate a fictional story, and text features like tables of contents, diagrams, and captions that signal a nonfiction text. - During an activity, students analyzed book covers and pages to determine whether examples were fiction or nonfiction based on these elements. They discussed that while certain elements often appear, a book does not need all elements to be clearly categorized. - At the end, students voted on a book to read together, taking turns identifying elements as they read to classify it as fiction or nonfiction. They also shared their reading preferences.

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    Spring Observation Lesson Plan

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    - The 30 minute lesson taught 3rd grade students to identify fiction and nonfiction texts. Students learned about key elements like illustrations, characters, and settings that indicate a fictional story, and text features like tables of contents, diagrams, and captions that signal a nonfiction text. - During an activity, students analyzed book covers and pages to determine whether examples were fiction or nonfiction based on these elements. They discussed that while certain elements often appear, a book does not need all elements to be clearly categorized. - At the end, students voted on a book to read together, taking turns identifying elements as they read to classify it as fiction or nonfiction. They also shared their reading preferences.

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    Teacher: Amy Hickey Date of Lesson: 3/23/21

    Subject: 3rd Grade Language Arts Reading Intervention

    Length of Lesson: 30 minutes

    Learning Target: I can identify whether a text is fiction or nonfiction and explain why.

    Learning Objective: When shown a text, students will be able to accurately identify whether it is a
    fiction or nonfiction text along with 2 supporting reasons why.

    Accommodations: For EL learning, I will be offering alot of visual support for new words and
    vocabulary. For speech students, I will be keeping my webcam on during the duration of the lesson
    so the student can see my mouth while I speak.

    Standards Taught:
    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.5

    Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information,
    drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.

    Materials/Files Needed: Epic.com will be screenshared during the duration of the lesson, anchor
    charts for fiction and nonfiction definitions will be kept in the room throughout the lesson, poll pod
    for students to pick book.

    Introduction: (10 minutes)


    - Review fictional elements poster
    - Let’s look together to review what elements - Illustrations are artwork that are drawn by an
    make-up a fiction story. First, fictional stories artist.
    have illustrations. What does the word
    illustrations mean?
    - Show pictures of examples of illustrations
    - Fictional stories also have characters that are - Students list examples of characters from
    created by the author. Show some pictures of stories they’ve read.
    popular examples. What are some examples of
    characters for stories you’ve read?
    - Fictional stories are also made up stories that
    are thought up by the author.
    - Fictional stories also have a setting, which is - Student describes the setting of the given story.
    where the story takes place. Show an illustration
    from a story. Where does it look like this story is
    taking place?
    - Great! Repeat after me the four different - Students repeat: illustrations, characters, made
    elements of a fictional story: illustrations, up by author, setting.
    characters, made up by author, setting.

    - Let’s look at the elements that make up a non-


    fiction text. Non-fiction books teach us
    information and facts. Non-fiction is real.
    - The first clue that a story is non-fiction is that it
    has text features. Some examples of text - Students circle the table of contents.
    features are first, a table of contents. Can you
    use the drawing tools to circle the table of
    contents that is shown on this page?
    - Another text feature is a diagram. Do you see a
    diagram on this page? Circle it. - Students circle the diagram.
    - Another text feature are captions. Do you see a
    caption on this page? Circle it. - Students circle the caption.
    - The last text feature we are going to look for is
    bolded text. Does anyone see some bolded - Students underline the bolded text.
    text? Underline it.
    - Why do you think an author might bold a word?
    - Authors bold words that might be hard for the
    reader to understand. Definitions can be found in
    - Lastly, non-fiction text often have photographs the glossary.
    that are real pictures taken by a camera. Here
    are some examples of photographs in a non-
    fiction text.

    Activity: (15 minutes)


    - Let’s look at some examples! What is the title - Student reads the tite: Once Before Time:
    of this book? Cinderella Rex
    - What do you see on the cover of the book? - An illustration of a dinosaur in a dress
    - Based on the title, do you think this text is a - It is a fictional story.
    fictional story or a non-fiction text?
    - How do you know it is fiction? - It has an illustration, dinosaurs don’t wear
    dresses
    - Let’s look at the next book. This is a page from - There are illustrations and dinosaurs don’t exist
    a book. What elements or clues do you see that so it is a fictional story.
    tell us whether it is a fiction or nonfiction story?
    - Let’s look at this book. What elements or clues - This is a nonfiction text because it has a table
    do you see that tell us whether it is fiction or of contents, and is telling facts about sharks. It
    nonfiction? also has photographs of sharks.

    - Discuss: Do you think a book has to have all of - A book does not need to have all of the
    the elements in order to be a fiction or nonfiction elements but many times they have at least a
    story? Why or why not? few of the elements.

    Closure:
    - Let’s vote on a book to read together! Students - Using the poll pod, students choose one of the
    choose between two given stories. stories.
    - Students take turns reading the story and
    pointing out the different elements that tell
    whether it is a fiction or nonfiction text.
    - What kind of book do you prefer to read, fiction - Students share about the type of book they
    or nonfiction? enjoy to read.

    Reflection:

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