For this unit I wanted to engage the students so each day as we sketched out and bulleted the charts, I would embellish them for the next day. The students really get so excited when they come in and see what the color version looks like. I would love to use these next year, but am thinking the lessons would not be as exciting as they watch their work come to life.
Tall Tales
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Fairy Tales
Mind you I am no artist. This took hard work and some tracing to be able to create these anchor charts. Obviously my frog prince is a bit lame, but the students didn't notice. Even the students who are too cool to care, are excited to see the finished results with their ideas.
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Folktales
This is my favorite chart. I love my 3 little pigs and how we all decide to have them each be a different part of the lesson. We will culminate this lesson with "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs..." by Jon Scieszka. I love all the pictorial hints throughout this picture book and the kids get such a kick out of the seeing them as well!
FOLDABLES
The Foldable here was created by Teacher's Treasure. Foldable Fun ideas were presented for the Everything Primary expo. Click on the Narrative link to see many ideas to utilize in the classroom throughout the curriculum.
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I can envision using this lesson after lesson!
Developing Empathy:
We love our Characters Shoes!
Using this giant sneaker provides the students a visual opportunity to figure out what empathy means and how to use character traits to make the connections to feelings. We studied Kenny Watson from The Watson's Go to Birmingham - 1963 for this particular walking in our Characters shoes anchor chart. It still hangs proudly in our classroom!
Tension Between Characters:
While studying "The Watson's" and discussing tension between character, my students took over the anchor chart and created a thunder and lightening storm. I did not change or add to it! It was perfect as it stood. Byron is the brewing storm and his lightening bolts of destruction are going in all directions affecting himself, his family and ultimately his way of life. Kenny is the sunshine that peeks out behind his big brother trying to figure out what makes Byron such a "cool" bully and remain innocent in spite of his big brother. And finally 5 year Joetta, the angel in the clouds representing all that is right in the world and eventually all that is so wrong in the USA of 1963. We always are sad to tuck the book away. A plain but powerful Anchor Chart...
