“Brog and the Rainbow” Myth Bundle

3rd, 4th Grade • Lesson Plan Bundle

$6.00

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Quick Facts

Subject: ELA, Literary, Myth

Type: Lesson Plan Bundle

Skills:

Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames
Determine the key details and setting
Create a graphic novel that summarizes their understanding of the components of a fable

Materials Needed:

Blank pieces of white paper (2 per student)
Lined paper
Pencils, crayons
Document camera/chart paper/ or whiteboard (used for examples)

Printable Resources: Required:

student copies of the myth, "The Brog and the Rainbow" (1 copy per student)

Optional:

"Exit Slips" as an assessment component (1 copy per student)

CCSS: RL.3.1, RL.3.2, RL.3.3, RL.3.4 & RL.4.1, RL.4.2, RL.4.3, RL.4.4

File Type: PDF Document

Lesson Plan Description

Perfect for multilingual learners, this fable lesson supports oral language development with strategic use of sentence frames and collaborative work. Your students will:

Segment 1: synthesize a myth to discover key details and find a central message.
Segment 2: analyze a character and their qualities and defend the quality by using text supports and create a graphic novel to show their understanding of main events and sequential order.
Segment 3: identify and defend the lesson or moral of the myth using text supports and identify words or phrases that help with visualizing the myth.
Segment 4: write a summary describing the main character using details from the myth.

These lessons can be taught over the span of a half day or you can use the lessons independently, broken up over several days.