Chapter 4 of your text provides an in-depth look at the elements that help make up a good children's book. You will create a lesson plan devoted to one of those key elements.
You will fist decide on a grade level to teach this lesson to. Next choose a story element shared in Chapter 4 for the lesson to to focus on.
(Please use my text as a reference)
Some examples of story elements you could choose are character, plot, setting, theme,or even beginning, middle, or end. Then, choose a book that you can use to teach this story element.
Finally you will develop a lesson plan that to teach this story element using the book you have chosen. In week 5 you will be building upon this lesson plan to create a week long unit, so please consider what you would like the theme of your unit to be when you are choosing a piece of literature for this lesson.
This document will be three pages word document. including the grade level you are working with, the title and author of the book you are utilizing, all aspects of the lesson plan are included. Remember your lesson plan should use the book you chose to teach a story element from.
It is required to use the lesson plan template to complete this portion of your assignment.
It is suggested that you utilize the Early Childhood and Child Development: lesson Plan handbook as a guide for how to more effectively plan this lesson.
At least one story map from Story Maps, along with an explanation of how you will utilize it within the lesson development section of the lesson plan template
A closing summary explaining which of the guidelines for evaluating characteristics of quality children's literature (from Section 4.4 of your text) you took into account when choosing the literature for this lesson
Provide your instruction with access to your work by uploading all the necessary links and or a text in a document. You must reference one scholarly source in addition to the course text.