6(A) Elements of a Story (Readiness)

Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Thmes and Genre. Students  analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about theme and genre in different cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide from the text to support their understanding. Students are expected to.
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6(A) identify elements of a story including setting, character and key events
Identify elements of a story including setting Identify elements of a story including character Identify elements of a story including key events

Activities:

After the teacher reads during Shared Reading/RATT the students identify elements of a story by using the retelling cube (any other cube with character, setting, problem, solution) the students sit in a circle and pass it around (like hot potato).  When the music stops the student holding the cube answers one of the questions.

First it can be orally, then the teacher can write the answers, and finally the students can do it on their own (drawing/writing)

4(B) Ask & Respond to Questions (Readiness)

Reading/Beginning Reading/Strategies. Students comprehend a variety of texts drawing on useful strategies as needed.  Students are expected to.
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ask and respond to questions about texts read aloud.	ask relevant questions, seek clarification, and locate facts and details about stories and other texts.	ask relevant questions, seek clarification, and locate facts and details about stories and other texts and support answers with evidence from text	2(B) ask relevant questions, seek clarification, and locate facts and details about storiesand other texts and support answers with evidence from text.
Ask questions about texts read aloud. Respond to questions about texts read aloud.

Activities:
Question Box -  Place a stuff animal, shape, item from the classroom and have students ask questions.  This is very difficult because they state comments.  To change up the activity, the teacher can write the questions on the board for students to see the question mark "?".

Shared Reading - As students ask questions teacher writes on the board and the class answers together.  Confirm answers at the end.