Lesson Plan
Exploring Fictional Text
This lesson will provide your EL students with support as they explore the elements of fictional text and learn about verbs in the present participle tense. This lesson can be used as a stand alone activity or a support lesson.
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Objectives
Academic
Students will be able to recognize the elements of fictional text.
Language
Students will be able to recognize the elements of a fictional text with the present participle tense using graphic organizers and sentence frames.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Pick out a fictional text (fairy tale or fable) from the classroom library that students are familiar with.
- Activate prior knowledge of the elements of fictional text by taking students on a "picture walk." Start with the cover of the book and model thinking aloud to connect to what you know. An example would be, "On the cover of the story, I see a woman dressed up like a queen. She looks like she is speaking with a frog. I know frogs aren't able to talk in real life, and I know that fictional text sometimes has animals that talk, think, act, or feel like people. I bet this book is imaginary, or not real, so it's a fictional story!" Continue this process, illiciting ideas from students.
- Encourage students to think about the following elements during the picture walk: characters, setting, problem, solution, plot, magic, transition words, moral, etc.
- Write the following language goals on the board in student-facing language and read through them as a choral chant:
- I can recognize the elements of a fictional text.
- I can create and recognize verbs in the present participle tense.