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    This document provides the objectives and lesson plan for a 3rd grade English Language Arts lesson about determining the central message or theme of stories. The lesson introduces and reviews theme, models identifying themes in a read-aloud fable, has students practice finding themes in partner work, and assesses their ability to support themes with evidence from the text.

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    This document provides the objectives and lesson plan for a 3rd grade English Language Arts lesson about determining the central message or theme of stories. The lesson introduces and reviews theme, models identifying themes in a read-aloud fable, has students practice finding themes in partner work, and assesses their ability to support themes with evidence from the text.

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    This document provides the objectives and lesson plan for a 3rd grade English Language Arts lesson about determining the central message or theme of stories. The lesson introduces and reviews theme, models identifying themes in a read-aloud fable, has students practice finding themes in partner work, and assesses their ability to support themes with evidence from the text.

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    Central Message

    CCSS 3rd Grade English Language Arts Objectives


    RL3.2 - Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse
    cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is
    conveyed through key details in the text.
    RL3.7 - Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the
    words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why,
    and how key events occur).
    SL.3.2 - Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or
    information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually,
    quantitatively, and orally.
    Objectives
    Students will read fables and determine the central lesson or theme of the
    fable.
    Students will identify textual evidence and explain how it conveys the theme.
    Time Estimation: 40 minutes
    Introduction 5 minutes
    Read Aloud 5 minutes
    made)
    Guided Practice 10 minutes
    Partner Practice 15 minutes
    student pairs
    Conclusion 5 minutes

    Materials
    The Miller, His Son, and the Donkey
    Theme anchor chart (previously
    Textual Evidence Theme sheet
    The Apple Dumpling copied for
    Highlighters, pencils, etc.

    Introduction
    Review theme as the central message, lesson, or moral to a story. Refer to the
    previously made and discussed anchor chart with short example paragraphs and
    themes. Inform students that today, we will once again be identifying theme but we
    will work today to support our claims with evidence from the text.
    Read Aloud
    Read aloud and display The Miller, His Son, and the Donkey on the ELMO projector.
    Throughout reading the short fable, think aloud and model metacognition
    strategies. Pause after each time the Miller meets another person and think aloud
    about possible lessons or themes.
    Guided Practice
    Model charting the elements of the story, including characters, plot, and then begin
    discussing theme.
    Possible questions to ask:
    Based on evidence from the text, what is the central message of the story?

    Central Message

    What evidence supports the theme? (Miller rode the donkey after a passerbys comment; Son and Miller rode the donkey after another persons
    comment; Miller and son carried the donkey after he gave out from
    exhaustion)
    Is there other evidence to support the theme? (See above for possible
    evidence).
    Throughout this guided practice time, model and have students root their thinking
    in the text. Highlight parts of the story that support the theme. Complete the
    charting theme sheet together (students will be working in a moment to complete
    with a partner). Remind students that in order to prove their thinking, they must
    find textual evidence to support theme.
    Partner Practice
    After the guided practice phase of this lesson, students will work in partners to read
    another folk tale, The Apple Dumpling. Student pairs will read together, highlight
    and provide evidence for their claims about the theme or central message of the
    text.
    Assessment
    Students will be informally assessed during the partner practice. Teacher will take
    anecdotal records of what individual students are doing with the support of their
    partners. These anecdotal records will be formative assessments to determine how
    to proceed with subsequent lessons on theme and central message.
    Conclusion
    After student pairs have completed the activity, regroup and discuss. Explain that
    while we have been focusing on theme and central messages strictly in fables and
    folk tales, they can be found in other works of literature. Explain in future lessons
    that we will be using picture books to further learn about theme.

    Central Message

    What the text says

    Theme or Central
    Message of the text

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