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Utilizing Visual Images for Creating and Conveying Setting in Written Text
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| Grades | 3 – 6 |
| Lesson Plan Type | Recurring Lesson |
| Estimated Time | Two 50-minute sessions |
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New Hartford, Connecticut |
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LESSON PLANS
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Travel Brochures: Highlighting the Setting of a Story
Readers are often transported to the places mentioned in texts through words and descriptions. This lesson invites students to create travel brochures about the setting of texts they have read.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Doodle Splash: Using Graphics to Discuss Literature
Students keep a doodle journal while reading short stories by a common author. In small groups, students then combine their doodles into a graphic representation of the text.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Using Picture Books to Teach Setting Development in Writing Workshop
Students use a graphic organizer to analyze setting development in picture books. They then apply what they have learned to their own writing.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Teaching Point of View With Two Bad Ants
Students will be crawling all over this assignment when they use illustrations and text to learn about life from a bug’s point of view.
STUDENT INTERACTIVES
Grades K – 8 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
The Book Cover Creator is designed to allow users to type and illustrate front book covers, front and back covers, and full dust jackets. Students can use the tool to create new covers for books that they read as well as to create covers for books they write individually or as a class.
Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
Doodle Splash combines the process of drawing with analytical thinking by pairing online drawing with writing prompts that encourage students to make connections between their visual designs and the text.
PROFESSIONAL LIBRARY
Grades 5 – 9 | Professional Library | Journal
Finding the Thread: Character, Setting, and Theme
An annotated bibliography of books that exemplify the plot elements, character, setting, and theme. Includes guidelines on how to do a book talk.
ACTIVITIES & PROJECTS
Grades 3 – 5 | Activity & Project
Explore and Write About Nature
In this activity, children look closely at living things in their natural environments and then make books about what they see.
Grades 6 – 8 | Activity & Project
Instead of creating traditional book reports or writing summaries, get “graphic” by creating a comic book or cartoon adaptation of the major scenes from the books.