Student Teaching edTPA Lesson Plan Template Commented [1]: This is really good!

Central Focus: Students will be learning about folktales, fables,

Subject: ELA, 3rd Grade and myths. They will learn what each of these literatures are and
the different elements to them. Students are also expected to be
able to recount these stories.
Essential Standard/Common Core Objective:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.2
Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and
myths from diverse cultures; determine the central Date submitted: Date taught: March 14, 2018
message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is
conveyed through key details in the text.

Daily Lesson Objective:

Students will be able to individually determine and explain the moral of a fable by analyzing the characters involved in
the story. Students are expected to earn an 8 out of 10.
21st Century Skills:
Academic Language Demand (Language Function and
Vocabulary):
Collaboration: students will be working in pairs
during guided practice. They will be reading the
Moral: students will be identifying the moral of fables
story together and trying to identify different
characteristics of the characters and then answer the
Fables: students will be learning and reading fables
following questions.
Characters/character traits: students will be analyzing characters to
Critical thinking: students will have to analyze the
help them determine the moral of the story
character trait and actions of the character in order
to figure out what the overall message of the story
Analyze, identify, and determine
is. Students will have to use inductive reasoning to
come to a conclusion about the moral of the story.
Prior Knowledge:
Students should be familiar with the vocabulary moral, folktale, and characters/character traits.

Activity Description of Activities and Setting Time

1. Focus and Review
2. Statement of Objective
for Student
Students have already learned about folktales, teacher should ask students to 2-3
summarize what a folktale is. Then teacher should ask students what they minutes
think a fable is, “what is a fable?”
30
“Today, you will be reading fables and identifying the moral of the story.” seconds
10-15
Show students this video to help define and describe fables. minutes
Tell students, “as you are watching this video about fable, I want you to be
taking mental notes about what a fable is and different components of fables.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruX6oQeLC3M
3. Teacher Input
“Let’s discuss more about what is a fable.”
Show class Elements of a Fable chart (already created on poster), then
compare what the students predicted about fables with the chart and video.

“Fables teaches a moral. Does anyone remember what moral means? (Moral
 means the lesson of a story.)
Let’s watch this video to learn a bit more about moral. As you are watching
the video and listening to the story, I want you to think about the adjectives
that were used to describe the monkey.”

Discuss the video by talking about the character trait of the monkey. Ask, “At
the beginning of the story, how was the monkey described? (He was an honest
monkey.) “At the end of the story, was the monkey honest anymore? What
happened that lead him to become dishonest?” “Can someone explain what
the moral of the story was? (No matter what kind of trouble you’re in, lying
will only make it worst.)

Does anyone see a connection between the character trait of the monkey and
the moral of the story? (The monkey was considered honest at first, but when
he started lying to get out of trouble, it only made things worse for him in the
end.) Commented [2]: This is great!

So, sometimes by analyzing the character traits and actions of the characters,
it can help us determine the moral of the lesson.

Now we are going to read another fable and analyze the characters to help us
determine the moral of the story.

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Give students a copy of the fable “The Ant and the Grasshopper.” Read the minutes
story out loud to students. After reading the story answer the questions below
to help identify the moral of the story.

“What are some adjectives to describe the Ant?” “Where is the evidence? (at
least two evidence from the text)” “How did the story end for him?” Commented [3]: Awesome!

For the Grasshopper, tell students to get into pairs to complete it. Once
everyone is done, go over it to make sure that every student understood.
4. Guided Practice
Then discuss the moral of the story together with the class.

Ask questions to help students come to the realization that because the
hardworking Ant collected food for winter, while the grasshopper was more
carefree and didn’t worry about the future, the Ant was able to have food for
winter while the Grasshopper starved. So a moral could be that if you work
hard today, you can reap the benefit tomorrow. (include details from the story
explaining why)

Students will be asked to independently read the fable “The Monkey and the 15
Pea.” Then by analyzing the descriptions and action of the character, students minutes
5. Independent Practice will have to determine and explain what the moral of the story is.

Students will need to write 1 adjective, 2 evidence from the text to support the
 description, an explanation of how the story ended for the character, and
determine and explain the moral with details from the text.
Before sending students off to complete their independent practice, ask
someone to explain what they’re supposed to be doing. Let class know that
they have 15 minutes to complete the page then it will be collected. Commented [4]: Great job clarifying expectations and
helping them know they are on a time limit so have to
stay focused!
There will be 10 points total
- 1 points for writing an adjective
6. Assessment Methods of - 2 points for listing at least two evidence from the text
all objectives/skills: - 2 points for explaining how the story ended for the character
- 5 points for determining the moral of the story and explaining with details from the
text.
Today, you have learned a strategy of analyzing characters to help you
identify and explain the moral of a fable.
7. Closure

Overall 17 out of 23 students met the objective for this lesson. Majority of these students
8. Assessment Results of
were able to identify the moral of the story and support it using details from the text.
all objectives/skills:

Targeted Students Modifications/Accommodations: Student/Small Group Modifications/Accommodations:

Students who struggles with reading will be paired with If time allot, teacher will pull these students aside and ask them
another student who can help guide them as they read about what they wrote and to summarize the story. Students
and answer questions. will also be asked to discuss about how they would describe the
characters in the story and how this relates to the lesson of the
story.
Materials/Technology:
access to Youtube, poster with elements of fables chart, copies of fables
Reflection on lesson:

Looking at the assessment, I should’ve made my direction clear and made sure that every student understood what they
were supposed to do. 10 students were able to state the moral of the lesson but did not support it with details from the
text. I should’ve also elaborated more about how the story ended for the characters because 7 students just wrote “bad” or
“good.” I should’ve told students to specifically explain how it ended.

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