Grade: 5th grade
Subject: Language Arts
Topic: Analyzing Text
Description: Students analyze stories for differences, which can then be “abstracted” away. The abstracted stories then become templates for fun and crazy new ones.
LA TEK: 20 (A) use and understand the function of the following parts of speech in the context of reading, writing, and speaking: (i) verbs (irregular verbs and active voice); (ii) collective nouns (e.g., class, public); (iii) adjectives (e.g., descriptive, including origins: French windows, American cars) and their comparative and superlative forms (e.g., good, better, best); (iv) adverbs (e.g., frequency: usually, sometimes; intensity: almost, a lot); (v) prepositions and prepositional phrases to convey location, time, direction, or to provide details; (vi) indefinite pronouns (e.g., all, both, nothing, anything); (vii) subordinating conjunctions (e.g., while, because, although, if); and (viii) transitional words (e.g., also, therefore)
Technology TEK: (1)Creativity and innovation (A) create original products using a variety of resources; (2) Communication and collaboration (A) draft, edit, and publish products in different media individually and collaboratively; (3) (D) Acquire information appropriate to specific tasks.
4Cs: Creativity, Communication
Resources: Lesson
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