Information Literacy with Children's Literature

Information Literacy With Children's Literature:

Designing Coherent Lessons

Name: Jason Highley

Grade Level: 1

Book Title: The crayon box that talked

Length of Lesson: 50 minutes

Focus: Community

Standards:

KCAS: CC.1.R.L.10 Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity: With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.

AASL: 4.1.1 Read, view, and listen for pleasure and personal growth.

Purpose/Learning Targets:

I can describe how people are similar and different.

I can explain what it means to be part of a community.

Materials:

The crayon box that talked

Group exploration worksheet http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson890/groupwork.pdf

Story map worksheet https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8rQKzOyV2poc1N6V1Y3NzJIMlE/edit?pli=1

Teaching Procedures:

· Ask the class, what does it mean to be a part of a community?

· Read The crayon box that talked

· Have students try to explain why the crayons did not get along at the beginning of the story

· Ask the students what changed to make the crayons happy at the end

· Divide the class into groups and have each group answer the questions on the Group Exploration worksheet

Assessment: Students will retell the plot of the book by completing the story map worksheet