Dayna Rodriguez

EDUG 863-61
April 27, 2015
Lesson #1
Subject: Literacy
5nd grade I.C.T. Classroom
Essential Question: How do the features of Realistic Fiction help me understand the text?
Objectives:
Students will identify and understand the features of Realistic Fiction.
Skills:
Identify
Vocabulary:
Realistic
Fiction
Scenario
Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.10
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, ..at the high end of
the 4-5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.11
Recognize, interpret, and make connections in narratives.., to other texts, ideas ..personal
events, and situations.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.5.4
Produce clear and coherent writing in which development and organization are appropriate to
task, purpose, and audience

Pre-Assessment:
Students in this classroom have been reading texts that belong to several different categories
within the fiction genre. The last two units of study were Science Fiction and Historical Fiction.
Those units of study have prepared them to study the next category of fiction which is Realistic
Fiction.
Set Induction (2 minutes):
1. Teacher will ask students to name their favorite television shows, movies, and books.
Teacher will make a list of these television shows, movies, and books on the Smart
Board. Teacher will ask students if their favorite television shows, movies, and books
contain unbelievable elements. If the television shows, movies, and books contain
unbelievable elements these will be eliminated from the list. The teacher will explain that
today the students will be introduced to Realistic Fiction.
Procedure (55 minutes):
Whole Group
1. Teacher will then ask students what makes the remaining television shows, movies, and
books real. Are the characters believable? Is the plot similar to events that happen in the
daily lives of regular human beings? Is story set in a time and place that could be real?
Level 4 Questions: Analyze
2. Teacher will then inform students that the above features of the story are the features
contained in Realistic Fiction. Teacher will explain to students that Realistic Fiction is a
story that is not real but contains realistic elements. The characters, the story plot, and the
setting are believable because the reader can relate to the characters and issues in the
story.
3. Teacher will go back to the television shows, movies, and books that were eliminated
from the original student preferred list of television shows, movies, and books. Teacher
will focus on each show, movie, and book that was eliminated from the original list and
ask why they are not Realistic Fiction. Level 4 Question: Apply Concepts
4. Teacher will hand out Is it for Real? handout from readworks.org and will ask students if
the scenarios on the handout contain the features of Realistic Fiction. Level 4 Questions:
Analyze, Apply Concepts.
Guided Reading Groups:
1. Teacher will then separate the students into small groups depending on students reading
level and students will complete Realistic Fiction: Identifying features of Realistic

Fiction differentiated graphic organizer with different scenarios with assistance from the
teacher as needed.
Closure (2 minutes):
Teacher will ask two students to share with the rest of the class how they determined if the
scenarios in the Realistic Fiction: Identifying features of Realistic Fiction graphic organizer
can be included in a Realistic Fiction text. Level 4: Synthesize, Apply Concepts.

Assessments:
1. Realistic Fiction: Identifying features of Realistic Fiction teacher created graphic
organizer & teacher created student progress tracker.
2. Book Club Rubric handout with expected behaviors and content that should be produced
during guided reading (Book Clubs).

DIFFERENTIATION:
Students with low level skills:
1. Students will complete Realistic Fiction: Identifying features of Realistic Fiction
teacher created graphic organizer consisting of fewer questions and sentence frames in
the response section of the graph organizer.
2. Leveled Text

Students with average level skills:

1. Students will complete Realistic Fiction: Identifying features of Realistic Fiction
differentiated graphic organizer.
2. Leveled Text

Students with above average level skills:

1. Students will complete Realistic Fiction: Identifying features of Realistic Fiction
differentiated graphic organizer with more scenarios and more complex scenarios.
2. Leveled Text
ELLs:

1. Student will complete differentiated Realistic Fiction: Identifying features of Realistic

Fiction graphic organizer consisting of fewer questions and sentence frames in the
response section of the graph organizer.
2. Leveled Text

Students with Conduct Disorders:

3. Book Club Rubric handout with expected behaviors and content that should be produced
during guided reading (Book Clubs).
Materials:
Is it Real? graphic organizer from readwork.org
Differentiated Realistic Fiction: Identifying features of Realistic Fiction graphic organizers
Resources:
Readworks.org